Were they? Asking her if she ever formally resigned from the Komosomol? Could she produce the letter doing so? Those needed to be asked? He couldn't ask a question about her proposal for the Federal Reserve adopt the business of commercial banks? Nothing on her suggestion that the Fed set wages and prices? Her idiotic "National Investment Authority"; no questions came to his simple mind on that? The best he could come up with was questions on Communist youth organization, prefaced with the lie "Meaning no disrespect"? No wonder people have nothing but contempt for Congres.
....well DoodleDawg, Senator John Kennedy is far from a “simple mind” having graduated from Vanderbilt and Georgetown Law. So, in defending this radical woman, you got a little overly enthusiastic.