Word: 83rd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went on to tick off a long list of other benefits farmers had received from the 83rd Congress, ranging from surplus-disposal laws to drought relief. Argued the President: "To continue the advance along the course charted 21 months ago, we need a legislative and an executive department both guided by leaders of the same general political philosophy . . . Our national welfare will be best served by a Republican-led Congress...
...coattails pull the party through with majorities in both Houses, there is not going to be much future argument about who's in charge. After the election it will be clear that every shade and nuance of the returns will bear heavily upon future policy. Eisenhower and the 83rd Congress swung the nation off one course, started it on another. But it is by no means committed to the new direction. It can swing back, or it can fall into a two-year interlude where the President is relatively helpless and Congress breaks into four warring groups: right...
...Federal Government when the Congress wants to follow one philosophy of government and the executive branch another. In our system of government, progress is made when the leaders of the executive branch and the majority of Congress are members of the same political party. The unsurpassed record of the 83rd Congress is shining evidence of this truth...
...general, the voters think that the 83rd Congress did a pretty good...
...anything he might say (if the court decides it is in the public interest), then require him to answer. If he refuses, he can be punished for contempt; if he answers but answers with lies, he will be liable for perjury. This solution was enacted into law by the 83rd Congress. There is still some feeling that the witness-immunity law violates the spirit of the Fifth Amendment; the Supreme Court will undoubtedly have to rule on its constitutionality...