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...come to the chamber to cast his vote on one of the most perplexing questions before the 81st Congress: How far should the Federal Government go in guaranteeing the rights of all its citizens? The Senate was about to face a showdown on the Fair Employment Practices bill-the measure which would make the nation's employers liable to fines and possible imprisonment if they were found guilty of discriminating against their workers on account of race or religion...
...election this fall is still to be won, but Duff is given a good chance of beating plodding Senator Francis Myers, Democratic whip in the 81st Congress. The Democrats have hopefully stored away all the charges of vote buying and fraud hurled by the battling Republicans, and last week they were wondering aloud whether Grundymen would work very hard for a man who has sworn to strip them of all patronage. But Jim Duff had no regrets. Said he: "It was a fight which had to take place, because the party could not go two ways at the same time...
Claude Pepper's mother once said of him: "He began to talk when he was nine months old and he's been talking ever since." But last week Senator Pepper was not talking very much. Democratic voters in Florida's primary had made him the 81st Congress' first lame duck...
...81st Congress, at the midpoint of its legislative session, was already in the middle of the off-year election campaign-an election which, both sides indicated (as always), would be as crucial as any in U.S. history. Politics came first. The primary consideration was not so much passing bills as creating issues which could be presented persuasively to the folks back home. The strategy of the Republicans was to blame and reproach. The strategy of Democrats was to explain, defend and duck-or to demand laws they couldn't get and blame the Republicans for not getting them...
...member of the 81st Congress, Humphrey has been a supporter of the civil rights program and was one of those responsible for placing the civil rights plank in the 1948 Democratic platform. He favors extension of rent control and the bill advocating $300,000,000 federal aid to education...