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Show Broadcasting Congress 4 Is Suggested To Educate The People The suggestion that Congressional Congres-sional proceedings be broadcast meets with no approval from the Honorable Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, who says, "There'll not be any broadcasts of House proceedings while I'm Speaker." We are not advised as to the objections of the Texan, but it strikes us that it would be a good thing to let the people of the country coun-try hear what goes on in both Houses of Congress. Additional publicity will do the Congress good and, we suspect, educate the public as to the problems faced by legislators Of course, no commercial radio system would care to allocate the time needed for a broadcast of the proceedings of Congress. This brings to mind the suggestion often of-ten made that the Government should establish a radio network of iits own. The system could give the public much information and it should be possible to do this without political partisanship. |