Word: 87th
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...87th Congress died bitterly, but the 88th convened in a climate of sweetness and light. The Senate postponed its customary opening filibuster until after the President's State of the Union message this week. The House whisked past its Rules Committee disagreement so fast that nobody really had time to get mad. Of course, all the friendship would not last long-but while it did it was nice...
...people elect the House. But the House elects the all-important Rules Committee. And last week, as old opponents began to dust off their parliamentary weapons, it seemed certain that the 88th Congress would begin the same way the 87th did-with a battle royal over the makeup of the Rules Committee...
...SENATE. Democrats dropped two seats they had held in the 87th Congress -but they picked up six that Republicans had held. This certainly was a victory, but it didn't make much difference to the legislative future. The results merely increased the already lopsided Democratic Senate majority to 68-32; and the performance of the 87th Congress showed that a big Democratic majority does not necessarily mean clear sailing for New Frontier legislation...
...Democrats will have four fewer seats than they had before the election. The House line-up in the 88th Congress will be 259 Democrats and 176 Republicans. The same conservative Democratic committee chairmen who resisted the New Frontier before will still be there. On the record of the 87th Congress, that spells legislative problems for the New Frontier...
...Lane." He was outtalked and outworked by hustling Bradford Morse, a Republican who often votes like a Democrat. Kitchin ran up against popular Charles R. Jonas, who cultivates his constituents the year round with cookbooks, letters and palm squeezing. Lone Republican in North Carolina's delegation in the 87th Congress, Jonas will have company in the 88th: Republican James Broyhill ousted incumbent Democratic Congressman Hugh Alexander...