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...82nd Congress, which concluded a ten-month session last week, has a mixed and contradictory record, hard to assess in the familiar pattern of two-party politics. In fact, Congress in 1951 demonstrated a marked further decline in the two-party system...
...record of the 82nd can best be understood in terms of the relationships of four voting groups to three areas of legislation. The groups...
...Domestic policy: Conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats blocked most Administration proposals. The Republican 80th Congress, castigated by Truman, had a direction in domestic policy; the 82nd had no direction. The Fair Dealers are a minority; the majority, made up of loose-knit groups without common aim or discipline, did not and could not accept responsibility for developing a program. The frustration and division of Congress was such that it made no progress on such measures as the St. Lawrence seaway, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, reapportionment and redistricting of congressional districts...
...82nd Congress will reconvene next Jan. 8, instead of Jan. 3, as prescribed (but not required) by the 20th amendment to the Constitution. Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland observed that Jan. 3 was Thursday, a wasteful day, and suggested that the date be pushed forward to the following Monday, Jan. 7. House Speaker Sam Rayburn gently suggested another push to Tuesday, the 8th. His reason: the Monday meeting would require him to travel on Jan. 6, his 70th birthday...
...Congressman Wigglesworth, member of the Appropriations Committee, had more than that on his mind. From then on, he spoke for many members on both sides of the aisle. What he said supplied one reason why the 82nd is behind in its work, underlined the difficulties of making any sense out of anything so vast as the U.S. budget...