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...Haven, William H. Righter '49, Richard D. Rohr '48, and Sedgwick W. Green '50 represented the College. They pointed out that the country was in good shape and that many of Truman's errors may be laid to the Eightieth Congress...
...first regular session of the Eightieth Congress on July 27, Republican estimates of the amount of money saved by Congress ranged from $700,000,000 to $7,000,000,000. But by the end of the special session in December it was a hard and uncomfortable fact that Congress had appropriated $37,728,000,000 for the fiscal year...
...campaign promises have been better kept than that of the Republicans to begin the Eightieth Congress with a prayer and end it with a probe. Scarcely a day of the session passed that did not witness exploratory jabs into some phase of the past or present activities of the Democratic administration. The pertinent facts of the May-Garsson scandal were public knowledge by the time that the GOP took up the reins of Congress; but Republicans can hog most of the credit for the smear "investigation" of David Lilienthal and the recent brief and abortive attempt to discredit the security...
...gigantic boomerang. The stock of the United States would sink to an as yet unplumbed depth. And this is by no means an inconceivable possibility, for the appropriations involved will be staggering. They will dwarf the two and a quarter billions spent on UNRRA. The Second Session of the Eightieth Congress may be more than somewhat reluctant to dig so deeply into the nation's pocket at a time when it will be mainly preoccupied with jockeying for position in the All America Sweepstakes of November...
...Even the baby Senators are getting illusions of grandeur. No one wants to tie himself to a party program until he has had more time to sound out public feeling, and Republicans are still in doubt as to the exact meaning of their November "mandate." For these reasons the eightieth Congress is likely to be notable for what it does...