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...Only a few bills were referred by the House parliamentarians to the HUAC in the 84th and 85th Congresses...
...valid legislative function, that from all the hearings on entertainment since 1947 no legislation emerged, and that the purpose of the inquiry was to single out and expose individuals in order to deny them employment. Ross said also he intended to prove through Walter's testimony that the HUAC was "engaged in indiscriminate dragnet procedures...
...wheels of justice, noted for turning slowly, practically ground to a halt in the morning during Ross's cross-examination of Frank S. Tavener, Jr., HUAC counsel during the 1955 hearings. The witness answered only about 10 questions and 56 of Ross's inquiries were ruled...
Taking the affirmative side of the proposal: "Resolved: That the HUAC should be abolished," HYDC speakers James G. Vaughter '63 and Charles A. Stevenson '63 condemned the Committee as "illicit in its operations, ineffective in holding hearings determine needed legislation, and a source of danger to Constitutional safeguards...
...Democrats proposed that "the importance between necessary investigations guaranteed civil liberties" can best corrected by abolishing the HUAC and its functions to the House Committee. "The job of investigating treason and subversion in the United States is by law a duty of the Committee--not the HUAC," asserted...