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Show 148 I speak tonight with no authority today on whot Congress mayor may not do. I am Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education cma labor. This Committee has hod referred to it the problems of the confirmation of Mr. Straus and his OS$ociates. As Gne of its members t hove pefSOl1QUy t_en an active part in the development of low-rent as CJ position; and housing pro close ra,nge I hove watched the germ grow reality. It has been pleasing to me to WQtch the Administrator ond his ClSSocletes toke hold of ,this chaUengin, problem in an efficient, business-Uke monner. I believe this group h. earned its spurs and will not disappoint in the smallest way those desperate families who are waiting for CI chonce to better their present olmost miserable state. Nor will they be diaappointed in thl-s government 0$ It disburses wfth dec-ant frugality every penny entrusted to it for this scientific attack on erime and squalor. I have tried to point the lebor, employment I end pump-primin8 feature of low rent housing eonstruction CIS Q magnificent incident. In view of our genercll economic f:ondhiOA the incident Is cry:ing cD loudly for attention as the primary objects of the original ftt. Con government perform (I mor. worthy func: tton than to supply work when work fa needed, to supply houses when houses are I'.eking, to raise the level of livins stan_cis where possibility for crime, sickness, and want are evident on .11 sides? If on-. of the obJecttves of our government 11 that men might live in the pursuit of happiness, surely these houslA90mends flt as definitely into our fundamental govern mental aims as ony that can be c:onceived.12 into One at CI more category of social legislation may receive onal ys15 of his position, the maintained thot Ias os political Cia probl em of sound economic concept is merely economic idea of Insurance. u th-e 13 toe lal security and rei lef principle taking over He went the into on to • Thomas stoutly of the social and .1(."_i_1 u an declare that the soclel security "aroadening the United Stol'e$ Housing Act,· 83, pp. 8065-8066, (75th Cong., 3d $811., June 3, 1938 13 uSocial Security, Sass., May 27, 1935}. attention in theory of social security used politics 12 1 st some Congressional Record, Record, Vol. • Vol. 79, p. 8223; {74th Congress, |
