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...traditions and rituals of opening day have not changed much in 189 years, but in far more substantive ways this is a vastly different Congress from those of the past. More than half of its members?61 Senators and 231 Representatives???were first elected within the past nine years; more than one-third of them have been in office for three years or less. Young, well-educated and aggressively independent?of both their own leaders and the White House?they are continuing the congressional revolution that started as a reaction to the tragic mistakes of Viet Nam and Richard Nixon...
...Tuesday at noon he announced: "The purpose of my conference with the members of Congress tonight is to advance a national unity in the setting up of constructive forces now working in the Depression." Day before. President Hoover had telegraphed 32 Democratic and Republican Senators and Representatives???all the important men of either house, including members of the Banking & Currency Committees?to meet him at the White House at 9 o'clock Tuesday evening. The President urged-secrecy, offered to put a plane at anyone's disposal...
...years ago. He grew up in poverty. He eked out a schooling and an education in the Law. He hung out a shingle. He married. He fought to be District Attorney of Dane County and won. In 1884, at 29, he was elected to the House of Representatives???the youngest member of that body. He was put on the Ways and Means Committee, and helped Representative William McKinley to write the McKinley Tariff Bill. After six years in the House, he went back to Wisconsin. In 1901, he was elected Governor of that state. He broke the corrupt organization that...
...Board of Geographic Names composed of ten representatives???two from the Coast and Geodetic Survey, one each from the State Department, Lighthouse Board (Treasury), Engineer Corps (Army), Hydrographic Office (Navy), Post Office Department, Smithsonian Institution, two from the Geological Survey?considered and unanimously decided that the proper name of the mountain was Rainier. In 1917, on a rehearing, the same Board reaffirmed its position, saying...
...majority of Mr. La Follette's group are, like himself, labelled as Republicans; a few are Democrats; and fewer still, Farmer Laborites. In the Senate 49 votes are a majority; in the House 218 votes. The Republicans list on paper 50 Senators and 225 Representatives???but only on paper. The La Follette group numbers 10 or 15 in the Senate and from 25 to 50 in the House. They are not bound by iron-clad allegiance to Mr. La Follette; some will come and some will go on every issue, but there are enough of the La Follette-minded always...
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