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...Since your committee," Adams wrote the subcommittee's chairman, Arkansas' Oren Harris, "has chosen to make public the extent of entertaining of myself and my family on the part of an old friend . . . and has insinuated that because of this entertaining or this friendship Mr. Goldfine has received on my intercession favored treatment from federal agencies, I feel that I should set the record straight...
Smathers expects the legislation to anger farmers and truckers, but he is optimistic about its chances. He expects support from Representative Oren Harris, Chairman of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, and Senator Warren Magnuson, Chairman of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, who criticized the Weeks report because it left excise taxes alone...
...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...