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...dinner. They included legislative experts, scholars, newsmen and members of the Executive Branch. But the largest number were from the Congress. House Speaker Carl Albert and Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott assessed the role and powers of Congress. In addition, six other members participated-Senators Hubert H. Humphrey, Adlai Stevenson III and Ernest Hollings, and Representatives Patsy Mink, Gerald Ford and John Anderson...
Whether or not Congress recovers power also depends in a sense upon the conduct of Congressmen and Senators as individuals. Said Illinois Senator Stevenson: "We must not only have men in the Congress-and in all our institutions of government-of the highest character, integrity, ability, but we must also emancipate them from the pull and haul of special interests. And that, I think, means an end to large campaign contributions, which now are quite capable of buying influence in the Executive and Legislative branches...
...past, Nixon has not strongly supported such legislation, calling it a matter for state control. The Stennis shooting has revived the issue, however. The Senate Democratic caucus urged "utmost dispatch" on measures to "inhibit the criminal and his access to deadly weapons." Illinois Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson introduced a bill requiring federal licensing of all handguns. "What happened to Senator Stennis and Governor Wallace and Senator Robert Kennedy could happen to any citizen, and frequently does," he argued. A similar bill was to be introduced in the House by Democrats Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois and Jonathan Bingham of New York...
...Club over the past four years has often carried enough weight to offset the uneasy coalition of conservative Republicans and equally conservative Democrats that generally supports the President. A veteran of four House terms, Mathias is deeply concerned with the role of Congress. As co-chairman (with Senator Adlai Stevenson III) of a series of bipartisan hearings on the problem, Mathias said...
...consistently liberal Eagle hardly enjoys unanimous popularity. It endorsed Adlai Stevenson's two presidential bids and backed Senator George McGovern last fall. Twice it has supported the election of Pittsfield Mayor Donald Butler, but it also needles him frequently. Butler responds with periodic threats that he will refuse to talk to Eagle reporters. An attempt last year to give the community a conservative newspaper failed after six months. "The Eagle doesn't speak for the middle segment of American society because it doesn't understand us," says Leon Phelps, who edited the short-lived competitor. Under...