Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN the 91st Congress convenes, it will seem like old home week in the House. In one of the most extraordinary elections on record, Americans voted with only a handful of exceptions to return incumbents to Washington. Far from making the net gain of 30 seats that they needed to control the House, the Republicans had gained only four, with a few races still undecided. The most likely party lineup was 245 Democrats and 187 Republicans?almost the same as that of the 90th Congress...
...returns started coming in from the Northeast, the first incumbent to lose his seat was Connecticut Democrat Donald Irwin. Representing Fairfield County, Irwin was elected in 1958, defeated in 1960, elected again in 1964 and sent back to Congress by a slim margin in 1966. This time he made things tougher for himself by calling Democratic Senator Abe Ribicoff a "creep" for his Democratic convention attack on Chicago police enforcement. Irwin lost to Republican State Representative Lowell P. Weicker Jr., 37, a lawyer who managed to unify the district's liberal and conservative Republicans...
...their old friends when the 91st convened. But if the House contests proved anything at all, it was that the American voter was considerably less disgruntled with the state of the union than had been thought?or at least that he was not ready to blame his representatives in Congress...
...renegade, traitor and scab" as well as a tool of those familiar Red devils, "imperialism, modern revisionism and the Kuomintang reactionaries." Despite this attack, however, Liu still hangs on as President, a post from which he can legally be removed only by the National People's Congress...
...goal will be difficult to reach. Congress has already proved tightfisted with appropriations. Beyond that, builders correctly fear that any sudden leap toward 2,600,000 homes a year would sharply increase the already serious inflation in construction costs. Land and materials prices have jumped sharply, and a severe shortage of carpenters, plumbers, electricians and bricklayers has led to soaring wage rates in many cities. All kinds of external pressures, from big-lot zoning to archaic building codes (which are often kept restrictive by local labor and political pressures), are making it increasingly difficult to erect low-cost housing...