RECORD OF BLOC IN CONGRESS 161 



The same conditions that led Senators into 

 group action also led the Representatives to 

 act together. In the final analysis there is 

 little difference between the reactions of a Rep- 

 resentative and a Senator; if anything, the 

 former is likely to think in terms of his 

 home district more than the Senator who thinks 

 in terms of the State and Nation. 



The record of the Bloc includes all the list of 

 measures, mentioned above, that have to do with 

 agriculture in particular and the national wel- 

 fare in general. We cannot say what might 

 have been the situation had none of these bills 

 been passed. We would still be discussing 

 packer control, the anti-grain gambling bills and 

 cooperative marketing. Instead we now have 

 an efficient administration of these three acts in 

 operation under the Secretary of Agriculture 

 with good results already in sight. 



The Bloc has undoubtedly speeded the prog- 

 ress of the movement toward better marketing 

 and more justice in the distribution of the con- 

 sumer's price between the producer and dis- 

 tributor. We still have far to go but we are 

 on the way. 



