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More realistically, Powell faces a tough fight to get back his congressional seat. His attorneys filed a 15-page brief with the investigating committee headed by Brooklyn Congressman Emanuel Celler, declaring that there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that bars him from his seat. The nine-man Celler committee announced that it will begin holding formal hearings this week. Celler said he had not yet made up his mind on whether to call Powell to testify, although he thought it "most likely...
With no choice but to carry out the House's will, Speaker McCormack last week handpicked a committee of five Democrats and four Republicans to investigate Adam Powell. As chairman, he named Democrat Emanuel Celler, a New Yorker like Powell and chief House sponsor of every major civil rights bill since 1957. Manny Celler had at the time of the Powell floor debate denounced the whole investigation as "a kangaroo court." Now he heads...
...House colleagues are concerned, however, any attempt by Powell to cleanse his past may be offset by his verbiage on the recording. Assailing his congressional opponents as "Judases" and "hypocrites," Powell compares his fate to Caesar's, at one point cries: "Et tu, Brute?" Even for Manny Celler's committee, such histrionics may be hard to take...
...seated by invoking a House rule giving any member the right to challenge the swearing in of another (TIME, Dec. 9). Moreover, for all of Congress' traditional reluctance to criticize its members, Congressmen are under growing pressure from constituents to do something about Powell. Brooklyn Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, for one, considers Powell "as obnoxious as a crocodile," but thinks that to expel him - which the House could do by a two-thirds majority - would be "foolish." Powell, whose constituents elected him to a twelfth term in November with 74% of the vote, would, says Celler, "be elected...
...term exceeded only by Brooklyn Representative Emanuel Celler, who was first elected in 1922, and Arizona's Senator Carl Hayden, who has served in both houses since...