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...years ago with dewy eyes, Arizona's Democrat Stewart L. Udall, 34, a Tucson lawyer, quickly had the mist wiped away. Udall found himself on the Education and Labor Committee, discovered that the important 30-man committee functioned only when and however its aging conservative chairman, Graham Arthur Barden of North Carolina, willed. Working under an archaic two-sentence set of rules, i.e., meetings at the chairman's, call, formation of subcommittees only at the chairman's pleasure, the committee in Udall's first two years churned only ten important proposals into law. It let half...
...touch with other committee Democrats who felt as he did. Together the rebels drew up 16 rules specifying set times for meetings and establishment of regular subcommittees. They got Sam Rayburn's pledge of neutrality, buttonholed other members of both parties to point out defects in Barden's chairmanship: e.g., seven of nine Administration-supported labor requests were pigeonholed last year without even committee hearings. When this session's first Education and Labor meeting was called last week, the rebels had a majority (17 of 30) committed to their rules changes...
...most influential committee of Congress, goes from the frying pan to the fire -from North Dakota's drafty William Langer to West Virginia's drafty Harley Kilgore. Few revisions in labor-management law are likely to come out of the 84th, since North Carolina's Graham Barden, a staunch Taft-Hartley man, will be chairman of the House Labor Committee. And there is little chance of anyone pushing tax reduction past Virginia's Senator Byrd until Government spending is sharply cut-a prospect that is even dimmer than it was before the election...
During yesterday's debate, Chairman Graham A. Barden of the House Education Committee attacked President Conant and the Administration's proposed draft of 18-year-old men. Barden said that the proposal would wreck American education but that there are educators like Conant who head large colleges that "will be taken care...
...guarantee he'll get the first contract of $1,000,000 to train boys," Barden said...