Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With notable lack of enthusiasm, the lame-duck 81st Congress limped back into Washington this week for one final fling at the legislative process. Only about 250 House members showed up, and a full 25 Senators were absent from the first roll call...
...hand were many familiar faces, some soon to be seen around the halls of Congress no more. Big, bronzed lame-duck Scott Lucas, after a visit to the White House, went through the motions of majority leader. His gear was all packed. He will be at home in Havana, Ill. after Jan. 3, practicing law. Pennsylvania's Francis J. Myers, the majority whip, was equally relaxed: he will soon be a Philadelphia lawyer again...
...Means Committee room. The clerk droned through the roll in a rising crescendo of bedlam and backslapping. The House knew, even though the Senate might not admit it, that what remains of the 81st Congress would be full of sound & fury, signifying nothing. The principal task of the lame-duck session, triumphant Bob Taft had said, was to "adjourn...
...Unemployed. The President had also failed to hook a full-time civilian defense director, or someone to be Assistant Attorney General in charge of antitrust prosecutions. At the end of the lame-duck session of the 81st Congress he would have eleven Democratic ex-Senators and 47 ex-Congressmen to pick from. But what he really needed were some able men from industry, and they wouldn't come...
Drawing up such a compromise would take time, perhaps too much for a bill to be passed even by the House before Christmas. Even if the House did pass it, most legislators doubted that the Senate would during the lame-duck session...