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There was the question of the La Follette-Monroney reorganization bill, passed by the 79th Congress, which reduced the old hodgepodge of 81 Congressional committees to 15 in the Senate, 19 in the House. The 80th Congress, however, was not bound to go through with this streamlining. Many would prefer...
Senator Walsh could expostulate that he was concerned with none of this, but nonetheless, as a Democrat, all of it whirled about his head. All over his state, billboards shouted the smart G.O.P. slogan -"Had Enough? Vote Republican Nov. 5." For Dave Walsh that was a particularly ominous sign. This...
3. La Follette Bill.
* Line-up in the 79th Congress: 56 Democratic Senators, 39 Republicans, 1 Progressive (Robert M. La Follette, who was eliminated in Wisconsin's primary). Need to control: 49.
Wisconsin's defeated Progressive Senator La Follette (now in line for a federal job): "I am gratified to learn the President has reaffirmed American foreign policy. . . ."