Original sentence: Publicity surrounding the case fed the early political career of Richard M.Senator Joseph McCarthy made his famous Wheeling, West Virginia speech two weeks after the Hiss verdict, launching his career as the nation's most famous anti-communist
Edited sentence: Publicity surrounding the case also fed the early political career of Richard M.Senator Joseph McCarthy made his famous Wheeling, West Virginia speech two weeks after the Hiss verdict: "I have here in my hand a list of 205 — a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.Senator McCarthy, despite being the chairperson of the Senate Government Affairs Committee starting in 1953, was unable to produce any evidence that a single State department employee currently employed was a member of the Communist party, and he was "condemned" by the Republican controlled Senate in 1954