LEONOR SULLIVAN
Among the Congressmen who will be retiring at the end of this year is me of the most conscientious and capable ever to serve: Leonor K. Sullivan, now…
Category: Congress
National Debt
There are more candidates for President this year than anyone can remember. All are looking for important issues to identify themselves with the voters. Yet there is one…
Federal Election Act
As a result of the Watergate scandals, Congress was under in tense pressure to “do something” to eliminate campaign abuses. Whenever the Federal Government undertakes to “do something”…
Electoral College
The Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments recently approved a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution which would eliminate the Electoral College and replace it with a direct popular…
Parent-Locator Law
Congress has finally demonstrated that it can, if it so chooses, crack down on some of the nonsense and waste in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare,…
Apollo-Soyuz
The ancient Roman emperors used circuses and games to divert the people from addressing themselves to the possibility of self-government. The last four American Presidents have given us…
Solution for Unemployment
Our biggest problem today is not the energy shortage. It is the job shortage. More than nine million Americans are un employed, and their savings and unemployment benefits…
Land Use Control
The land controllers are back again with retreads of last year’s defeated bills. Congressman Morris Udall’s Land Use and Resource Conservation Act of 1975 could prove to be…
India’s Ingratitude
Of all the faults that poison human relationships, surely ingratitude is one of the most detestable. Shakespeare called it a “marble-hearted fiend” and pronounced it worse than “lying,…
PARTY CONVENTION RULES
There are two basic approaches to permitting people to partici pate in their government. The first, called functional representation, is based on the theory that society is made…