Speech #630342471

Evqr since I have been in Congress I have tried to show the people of my district that a call of the House is a call of the Members to get a quorum. that the Members simply answer present. that it is not a vote on anything and is of very little value to the people. while. on the other hand. a roll call on bills vital to the people is an entirely different proposition. yet both are called roll calls. If we could be here in Congress all day. at an expense of $12 a minute. and at the same time be present at this or that department. why. all this talk about roll calls missed would cease. but since the dual man is a creation of fiction and not a reality. we can only be present at one place at a time. How in common sense can a Congressman be at the Pension Department. at the State Department. trying to locate lost people in Europe. at the Immigration Department. at the Patent Oflice. at the War and Navy Departments. at the* InteriorDepartment. attending committee meetings. where most of the work of Congress is done. answering his -mail. be entertaining his friends from the district which 11e represents. and be in Congress at the same time listening to longdrawnout sp6eches? Only yesterday I missed one of these calls of the House while I was at the State Department endeavoring to locate Mr. Nordberg. president of the Nordberg Manufacturing Co.. of Milwaukee.