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Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 will reintroduce the legislation to the 81st Congress. The bill for grants to local health agencies was shelved in the previous session...
...Trouble with Us." On the House side there was more harmony, and possibly more strength. Joe Martin, the blacksmith's son who had run the House with an iron hand during the 80th Congress, was picked as minority leader of the 81st. He renamed Illinois' facile Leslie Arends to Arends' old job of whip...
...Accusers. For five hours Chambers testified as a stenographer took notes. When he had finished, the Congressmen jubilantly announced that Chambers had given them enough work to keep busy for six months. There was ample reason, they concluded, to continue the House Un-American Activities Committee during the 81st Congress (where it would be under Democratic control). To save it from further public criticism of its methods, Republicans Mundt and Nixon proposed a few changes in procedure "which may have justified some honest criticism...
...most pressing and controversial items which will come before the 81st Congress is public housing. A serious problem long before the War, it remained unsolved in the last session when the Taft-Ellender-Wagner Bill failed to win approval. It is understood that two housing bills will be given to the President this week to insure prompt attention in the next session...
...which he cannot help, partly because of inflated building costs. There must be Federal coordination from the top to aid and advise local groups, to plan better cities, and to prevent destruction of present facilities even for the purpose of improving them. No Utopia is in sight, but the 81st Congress, when it assembles on January 3, cannot long delay a start toward improving a situation in which one third of the nation lacks adequate shelter...