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Other congressional matters last week: ¶The Senate decided to have its 1,800 employees investigated by the FBI, but shouted down Maverick Wayne Morse's sarcastic proposal that Senators themselves be investigated...
...film on the life of Mahatma Gandhi), but during the week the President asked some more Congressmen to lunch. To their utter surprise, House Democrats were included in the guest list, and the White House announced that eventually every Democrat as well as every Republican in Congress (and Maverick Wayne Morse too) would be invited to one of the frequent luncheons...
This harmonious prelude of the 83rd by no means meant that it would always be thus. There was a live, brilliantly cravatted reminder of one big problem the Republican leadership faces. Playing to the galleries, as usual, Wayne Morse, the Oregon maverick, strolled into the chamber lugging an iron folding chair, prepared to "sit in the middle of the aisle." The Republicans shooed him over to his old seat in the front row on their side, just because that was the simplest thing to do. Not so simple would be the Morse-born problem of maintaining a Republican majority...
...previously assigned committees. The four were Wisconsin's Bob La Follette, Iowa's Smith Brookhart, North Dakota's Lynn Frazier and Edwin Ladd. All had worked for La Foilette's election as President on the Progressive ticket, opposing Calvin Coolidge. The best guess is that Maverick Morse will be similarly corralled in 1953, i.e., will be bumped to the bottom of the Armed Services and Labor Committees, on which he already is seated, and will get no other assignments...
...Party during the presidential campaign, announced that he would vote with Republicans in the organization of the new Senate, thus assuring the G.O.P. of a bare majority, 49-47. To vote with the Democrats, he said, would give the Eisenhower Administration "a narrowly drawn excuse for legislative irresponsibility." But Maverick Morse, who made it clear that he would be voting against the Republicans as often as with them, refused to discuss committee assignments with either party. In 1956, he said, he will run for re-election as an Independent...