During his early tenure in the Senate, O'Mahoney supported most of the New Deal programs, with the notable exception of President Roosevelt's "court-packing plan."[REF]
Upon his return to the Senate, O'Mahoney became a strong opponent of the Dixon-Yates contract, which provided for a private company to build a plant to provide power to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to replace the power that the TVA sold to the Atomic Energy Commission [REF].