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...Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield, who have been alienated by the extravagances of Dulles' hard-sell tactics as he pushed for speedy action on the Eisenhower doctrine. The mounting Democratic theme: Dulles is the price the Administration must pay if it wants an 85th Congress that will be fully cooperative in foreign relations...
...Members of the 85th Congress reported the following denominational allegiances, or lack of them...
With that, the House served notice that the Federal Reserve Board and its tight-money policy will probably find rough going in the 85th Congress, since Texan Patman is one of Capitol Hill's most outspoken critics of FRB's credit-pinching policies. In the Senate, the Administration can look for little help. A resolution by Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, authorizing a non-partisan presidential commission, is sleeping quietly in the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, has little chance of being reported out before the end of February, if then...
...NATION An Urgent Condition During one of the tangled debates of his first Administration, President Grover Cleveland rapped out an apt reminder to Congress: "It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory." Last week, as the 85th Congress took up President Eisenhower's resolution authorizing the use of force to keep the Communists out of the Middle East, the U.S. was confronted by an urgent world condition that was increasingly apparent the greater the distance from Capitol Hill...
...minority leader of the U.S. Senate admits only that he has not yet made up his mind about 1958. Indeed, he has enough cause for concern with events already at hand. For the session of the 85th Congress that began last week is the critical test of Knowland's leadership. And the record written by the 85th may decide once and for all the ultimate political future of William Fife Knowland...