Word: 83rd
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Amid all the squabbling last week over the relative potencies of "condemn" and "censure," one fact was as welcome as it was clear: the Senate has hung a can on Senator McCarthy that years of tongue wagging will not shake off. While the law-makers of the 83rd Congress have cured the most apparent symptom of the disease that McCarthy brought to the upper house, next year's 84th Congress should strike at the cause of the sickness by placing effective curbs on committees. It should assure the nation that no other unscrupulous individual will ever use the broad powers...
Daniel Reed was chairman of the key House Ways and Means Committee in the 83rd Congress, and effectively blocked action toward lower tariffs. Now Tennessee's Democratic Representative Jere Cooper takes over. Says he, of the Administration's trade recommendations: "I would think they should have early consideration. I have always strongly supported the reciprocal trade program." If Georgia's Senator Walter George chooses to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, then the Finance Committee will go to Virginia's Harry Byrd. He served last year on the Randall Commission and concurred...
...Congress for approval, also recommended by the Randall Commission. For GATT is not only shaky in structure; it has also been attacked in the U.S. as unconstitutional. Democratic majorities and Committees in the next session are ore likely to give Eisenhower support in his liberal trade program than the 83rd Congress did, and formal consideration of GATT is an important part of that program. A stronger international tariff agreement, backed by U.S. Congressional approval, would go a long way toward freer trade...
...irony of 1954 is that as the election neared, most observers predicted a Democratic victory, although all the events and all the decisions of the past three months-the successful record of the 83rd Congress, the bolstering of the economy, the reduction of unemployment, the strides in foreign policy-were events and decisions favorable to the Republican Party...
...Democrats gain control of Congress next week, however, they will win more than just a chance to re-write the bad legislation of the past two years. They will be able to institute needed measures that were quite forgotten by the 83rd Congress, such as revision of the Taft-Hartley Law and a realistic immigration policy. More important, they will be able to organize both Houses--to replace as majority leaders such arch-isolationists as Senator William Knowland and Representative Joseph Martin. And publicity-happy demagogues like McCarthy, Jenner, and Velde will lose their chairmanships. The security program would proceed...