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...difference between a party platform and a legislative program is the difference between cup and lip. Last week Administration officials were ready to talk about the 81st Congress' legislative program. Faithful Alben Barkley, who will ride herd on the Senate, was prepared to translate at least some, of the Democratic platform promises into...
...81st Congress will have 54 Senators and 224 Representatives (a majority in both houses) who voted for Taft-Hartley. Administration officials, however, expect some changes of heart. A total of 121 Senators and Congressmen who voted for Taft-Hartley were either beaten in the primaries, retired, died or were eliminated on Election...
Most of the leaders of the new 81st Congress would be familiar. They were men who had grown old in the service of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. After only two years in minority exile, they were back in the seats of power...
...every one of the new Democratic Representatives in the 81st Congress owed as much to Harry Truman directly as did Cecil White. But most of them did owe their election to the issues which the President raised in his attacks on the 80th Congress. A few unknowns, who thought they had no chance to win, were swept in. Some, who did not subscribe to all of Harry Truman's campaign promises, were elected because of local issues. But a composite of the new congressional faces showed a political complexion much like Harry Truman's. Representative faces...
This week, with a few changes still possible because of recounts, the House score for the 81st Congress stood at 263 Democrats, 171 Republicans, 1 American Laborite. The final Senate count: Democrats 54 (up 9), Republicans...