Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...halt to overseas junketing by members of Congress at military invitation. The latest examples were a tour this month by six Senators and Congressmen to the Pacific, courtesy of the Air Force, and a Navy-sponsored European trip for seven Congressmen. Snapped McNamara: "That will be the last of those trips!" From now on, all such junkets must be okayed personally by the Defense Secretary...
...member of the Harvard Law School faculty and a Harvard research fellow have initiated a letter circulating among college faculty members in the Boston area to urge support for Mississippi's Freedom Democratic Party in its attempt to block the seating of five Congressmen-elect from Mississippi...
...letter written by Hayes Lamont, a research fellow in biology, and signed by Mark De Wolfe Howe, '28, professor of Law, urges its recipients to put pressure on their Congressmen and on the Johnson administration to consider the Notice of Challenge filed with the House of Representatives by members...
...House, which makes its own rules concerning the qualifications of its members, should not allow Congressmen who do not represent their districts to continue sitting. It should deny seats to Mississippi's Congressmen; if it wishes to ensure that representation is equitable, it should implement a system of federal registration for federal elections and call for new elections in Mississippi...
...Congressmen who are currently considering committee reforms and rules changes would concentrate Congress could unseat the Mississippi delegation. It would be a drastic reform, but it is time for the House to recognize that Mississippi's districts are boroughs as rotten as old Sarum ever...