Each time congress opens

Each time congress opens

its doors for wither go at restricting theHUberties of the people, a question arises: How far will they go this time? Farther than last time? Or not so far? Put another way, today, people are wondering $ the 88th Congress will enact more or less left-wing legislation that did its predecessor.

The short answer: Probably less. Why this is so takes a bit more telling. As may be recalled, Republican Eisenhower went through his second term faced by a Democratic Congress. As federal judgeships fell vacant, through death or resignation, Eisenhower, as was his duty, nominated successors. Before his term expired there were about 80 such nominations before the Senate Judiciary Committee but it took no action. It never did, not so long as Eisenhower was in office. The Democrats who contiolled the committee, you see, played against the possibility the Republican, Eisenhower, would be succeeded by a Democrat. If so, and if the Democrats had failed to confirm Eisenhower’s nominations, they would have all those goodies for themselves. And that is precisely what happened. Consequently, following Kennedy’s election, whenever a Democratic Congressman choked on trying to swallow the program of the New Frontier, whenever a critical vote was needed, the Administration had a ready answer: A federal judgeship for his vote. Why not? Either a judgeship or some other thing of tangible, political value. For instance, one Southern Senator, his7 torically opposed to Foreign Aid, supported the Aid program last year on the promise an army camp in his state would be reopened. It was.