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...Gossett, 49, seventh-term Congressman and a member of Speaker Sam Rayburn's loyal band of Texans, got up to make a speech about the underprivileged Congressman. Inflation had made it impossible, he explained sadly, for him to support his wife and five children on his $12,500 salary and $2,500 untaxed expense account. "If we would preserve America," he said, "our demands upon our elected representatives must be based upon the general welfare and not upon shortsighted selfishness." With that and his resignation on file, he said goodbye to the House and left for Texas, there...
...delegation will advocate five major policies at the convention: civilian administration of occupied areas in Japan; removal of loyalty checks on National Science Foundation scholarship holders; passage of the Lodge-Gossett Amendment; establishment of Columbia, Missouri, and Connecticut River Valley projects; and opposition to the Mundt-Nixon Bill...
...Pigeonholed in the House Rules Committee the Senate-approved Lodge-Gossett constitutional amendment to change the system of counting electoral votes in presidential elections (TIME, Feb. 13). ¶ Voted to make Hawaii a state (having already endorsed statehood for Alaska), sent the bill to the Senate where a similar proposal had been shelved three years...
Stoutly denying any concern with politics, Evangelist Paden appealed to U.S. Ambassador James Dunn for help. In Dallas, 800-odd Churches of Christ members assembled, and 378 signed a protesting telegram to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Texas Congressman Ed Gossett went with a delegation to the State Department where, he said, he warned officials that "if the Italian government runs this orphanage out of Italy, it may have a serious effect on congressional action on European aid funds...
...House promptly slapped Ed Gossett and passed the bill with a resounding voice vote. But the bill had a clouded future as it went to the Senate Judiciary Committee. There, by interminable secret hearings, bovine deliberateness, and dogged delay, Nevada's silver-haired Pat McCarran had been earnestly sabotaging any revision in the D.P. restrictions. He had pigeonholed one bill, introduced one of his own which nominally increased the number of admissions but kept all the unworkable restrictions. It was only a one-man show, but so far, it had been enough...