Powell Back In House
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, Jan. 6.
The Negro Congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, has announced a “back door” plan to regain his lost seniority in the House of Representatives. The 60-year-old flamboyant Democrat from New York’s predominantly Negro district of Harlem regained a seat in the House on Friday after exclusion for nearly two years for alleged misuse of payroll and travel funds.
He was ordered to pay a $U525,000 fine and lost his 22 years of seniority in the House before being allowed to regain ixis seat.
Speaking at a press conference in the Abyssinian Baptist Church where he is a pastor, Mr Powell said his plan was to make a resolution proposing the establishment of a task force to study poverty programmes in the United States.
He explained that a Congressman making a resolution is ordinarily made, chairman of the project and “seniority doesn’t mean anything unless you are chairman of a committee or a party leader.”
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31881, 8 January 1969, Page 3
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161Powell Back In House Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31881, 8 January 1969, Page 3
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