Speech #880070928

Rumania. and Bulgaria. In those 7 months. the 80th Congress also approved United Nations site agreements. reincorporation of the InterAmerican Institute. American participation in the International Childrens Fund. and In the International Refugee Organization. extension of the Commodity Credit Corporation. establishment of a sugar quota system. extension of rent controls and wartime excise taxes. establishment of priorities for critical materials in short supply. extension of the school lunch program. and a freeze -on social security taxes. No matter what one may think of these bills or the many other minor measures passed in the first half of 1947I was against some of them and for some of themone must admit that there was plenty of activity on the floor of the House and Senate. Now let us contrast that record with that of the first 7 months of the present Congress: This Congress has enacted into law. as of today. only four measures which could conceivably be called major legislation: Extension of corporate and excise taxes. temporarily fixing the national debt limit. the voluntary feedgrains acreage diversion program. and the draft extension.