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Sumners Opposes Hatch Amendments

WASHINGTON--Chairman Hatton W. Sumners, D., Tex., of the House Judiciary Committee, today denounced amendments to the Hatch "Clean Politics" Act as a step toward dictatorship, after his group had voted to reconsider the legislation which it previously had shelved by secret ballot.

The amendments would limit individual campaign contributions to $5000 and would paralyze state machines by banning political activities of more than 200,000 public employees paid wholly or in part from federal funds.

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