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...worst Congress" churned determinedly toward adjournment. Harry Truman to the contrary, the 80th, far from being the worst, had clearly won an honorable spot in U.S. legislative history...
Pledges & Publicity. On the domestic front, the 80th wrote the first major labor law in twelve years, and redressed the balance between labor and management. It found an equitable formula to reduce taxes. It passed a wise presidential-succession bill (proposed by the President), authorized unification of the services, and showed determination and foresight in overwhelmingly approving a 70-group Air Force in the face of Navy-minded opposition by the Administration. Its unwillingness to control prices reflected its G.O.P. majority's faith in a free economy, its distaste for peacetime controls...
Like other Congresses, the 80th had been petty on occasion, had politicked often. It had jammed through the wool bill, a piece of old-line protectionism which the President properly vetoed. The Senate's bitter fight over confirmation of AEC Chairman David Lilienthal had been no credit to the 80th Congress. The House had dragged its feet on foreign aid, twice had almost upset the applecart (with its vote to include Spain in ECA, its slash in ECA appropriations). No one was proud of the 15% "voluntary" rent-control bill. Action on housing and admission of D.P.s was long...
Over this empire, Bill Mellon, as president and later as chairman, kept a tight hold-until last week. Then, a few days before his 80th birthday, Oilman Mellon announced his retirement...
...preliminaries were done with. Last week the 80th Congress humped to its work. Floor dockets were light, but committees ground away furiously. Besides ERP, two matters got special attention...