Word: oren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another copy of the letter, finally found one in the National Archives, returned to the hearing room that afternoon with an indignant explanation: It was an "inconsequential letter," and if, "after 32 years, only one letter can be produced, I have a lot to be thankful for." Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris, an Arkansas Democrat who has been less excited all along than Wolverton about congressional pressures on the FCC, cut in quickly. "There is no impropriety," said Harris. "Hearing is adjourned...
...subcommittee had heard enough -and more than enough. Member after member, both Republicans and Democrats, began demanding Mack's resignation. Finally it came the turn of Chairman Oren Harris, an Arkansas Democrat. In a soft, almost regretful voice, he read a five-page statement. "I feel sorry for you," said Harris. "You are to be pitied, in my opinion, because I think you have been used as a tool in this unfortunate mess. It seems to me that the best possible service that you could render now as a member of the Federal Communications Commission would be to submit...
...three Democrats, four Republicans) to 4 (three Democrats, one Republican) vote, the subcommittee booted Bernard Schwartz. Throughout it all, Schwartz's chief defender had been the subcommittee chairman, Missouri Democrat Morgan Moulder. Next day Moulder resigned his chairmanship, to be replaced by Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris, chairman of the full House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Schwartz characteristically repaid Moulder for his backing. Said he: "He turned out to be a weak...
Arkansas' Mills has plenty of home-state company in Congress' higher reaches. Of eight men in Arkansas' Washington delegation, four hold important committee jobs: Mills, Senator William Fulbright (chairman, Banking and Currency Committee, ranking member of Foreign Relations), Senator John McClellan (chairman, Government Operations), Representative Oren Harris (chairman, Interstate and Foreign Commerce)-a sizable share of congressional power for a state that is 32nd in population and 47th (next to Mississippi) in per capita income...
...tossed the problem to Congress, many of whose members oppose pay TV because powerful pressure groups, e.g., unions and veterans' organizations, have protested that it will be an added expense on family budgets. Congress could effectively discourage pay TV by setting up rigid standards for performance. Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris said that his House Commerce Committee will investigate, and Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler has authored a bill to make pay TV illegal...