Abstract
IN THE Preface to his excellent study, Congress Makes A Law, Stephen Bailey speaks of our national legislative process as follows: For most Americans the drama of Congressional policy-making is played behind closed curtains. It is much as though the citizenry were seated in a huge auditorium, allowed printed programs, but kept in almost total ignorance of what was happening on the stage.' One might well contend that he exaggerates the existing situation, but the picture he portrays certainly contains several elements of realism. The purpose of this article is to attempt to pull aside the curtain so that we may have at least a partial view of what happened in the areas of farm legislation in the 86th Congress (1959-60). The results of the November 1958 election brought about a substantial increase in the strength of the Democratic Party in Congress, or the statistics seemed to so indicate. In both houses there was an almost
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