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the two houses. We do have the two houses. 1 prefer it,

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frankly, because I think, regardless of the comments, I

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think it serves a very valuable purpose when you have two

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bodies; but I think you ought to look into the size of

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those two bodies, as to what would be a practical size

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for the House as well as the Senate.

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I think that 142 members in the House which we

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have now may be a little too large. I think it may make

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it a little unwieldy. It formerly was 123, and that was

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large enough, by any means, and when it went --

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THE CHAIRMAN: Suppose, Mr. Mandel, now that

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you've gotten us to Question 9 -- before you came in

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we said that by no means do we feel this is a ladder,

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we're going to seek to cover all of these and not

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necessarily give all our comments today. There will be

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another opportunity at another time, and you might send

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us your comments at any time you choose, too; but since

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you moved us into Question 9 --

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DELEGATE MANDEL: I think the two of them

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have to be considered together.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Go ahead and comment on this