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...Dozen Dissents. There was some disagreement by the commissioners. California's Democratic Congressman Chet Holifield dissented from twelve reports and vigorously argued that the commission did not have the right to deal with U.S. policy, which he felt was a prerogative of Congress. Even Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. and Defense Mobilizer Arthur Flemming dissented from four reports. On the Water Resources and Power report, they argued that it went further than the public-private partnership theme of the Eisenhower Administration in the field of power...
Forcing the Fight. The joint committee, after hearing Strauss, decided not to talk any more about the Dixon-Yates contract during the current hearings. Just before the decision was made, California's noisy Democratic Representative Chet Holifield shot from the lip. "Mr. Chairman," said Holifield, "no matter how deep you bury it, it is still going to smell bad." Holifield may have been right, although not in the way he meant. Commented the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock: "The most unattractive exhibition of partisan politics the capital has witnessed for years is the row over...
...Holifield introduced a letter from AEC chairman Lewis Strauss saying that two previous AEC-private-power contracts had cost far more than originally estimated. One plant built near Paducah cost $58 million more than estimates, with annual power charges $2,000,000 higher than expected; another built near Portsmouth cost $32 million above the estimates, with annual charges increased...
...microphone, hurled by California's Congressman Chet Holifield, s lithered down the long committee table. "I demand it be cut off!" Holifield shouted...
...recording machine and microphones placed on the table. His purpose, he explained afterwards, was "to show them how they sounded all cackling at once." Committee members, who are as fond of gruff, gritty Chairman Hoffman as he is of cackling, got very sore. After a flurry of angry protest Holifield made a motion that the machine be turned off, and the vote went 20-3 in favor. "Pull the plug," said Hoffman sourly...