Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 17, Number 36, DeMotte, Jasper County, 1 August 1947 — REP. HALLECK HAILS SUCCESS GOP CONGRESS [ARTICLE]

REP. HALLECK HAILS SUCCESS GOP CONGRESS

House Leader Declares 80th Congress A cco m plishments Outstripped Those Of Many Years Washington, July 29 Representative Charles Halleck of Indiana, Republican leader of the House of Representatives, tonight summarized the work of the 80th Congress to date and decided that it has accomplished more than any previous Congress “in many, many years,” despite what he called “balking by the hodgepodge Democratic party.” In an address prepared for delivery over the American Broadcasting Company network, Halleck promised that the next ses-“ sion of Congress will push to completion nfany measures now being despite the threat of presidential vetoes and “alienminded forces.” “The record shows that the Republican Party has kept its pledges. We have responded to the will of the people, and demonstrated that ours is a unity party with a sound, forward-looking program,” the Hoosier declared. Recalling that President Truman twice vetoed a Republican income tax reduction program, and the labor-management relations act, Halleck said, “it will be a disastrous error if we permit one mdn to place his judgment above the will of an overwhelming majority of the people and of Congress.” He then pointed out that Congress made the biggest reduction in a presidential budget that any Congress' made, although “we cut with care.” He said that by next Jan. 1 the Federal pay roll will have been reduced by more than 200,000 persons,! and that cuts will continue. Halleck also grabbed for the Republican Party the credit for passing President Truman’s armed services unification program and claimed that the Republican Congress sent several bills benefiting veteran's of the Civil, Span-ish-American and Indian wars as of World War II to the President. The more loquacious members of* Congress could 1 rest assured today that they have until next Aug. 15 to dress up speeches they withheld from the Congressional Record for revision, when Senator William E. Jenner of Indiana, chairiiian of the joint congressional printing committee, set that date as the printer’s deadline. Halleck will start for Wisconsin tomorrow morning. The journey is scheduled as “a fishing trip.” The bulk of Washington comment is that it is “a political fishing trip.” Recently Halleck keynoted the Wisconsin Republican state convention. Less recently, he campaigned the state and made it solidly Republican in Congress.