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...support of Vice President Nixon in obtaining a ruling stating that the Senate is not a "continuing body" and is therefore free to adopt whatever rules it wants at the beginning of each Congress. Nixon has already given such an opinion once (in another, similar fight in the 85th Congress) and can be relied upon to stick to his guns. After he rules, the Senate will operate temporarily under standard parliamentary rules which permit closure by a simple majority. Thus the liberals can terminate a filibuster against their anti-filibuster drive without much trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy Talk | 1/6/1959 | See Source »

...Meyner man, "but he's trying to buy the convention"). Also, Hum-phreyites will make it clear to farmers that Kennedy has, on occasion, voted against high price supports (although he won the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s 100% approval for his votes on 15 key issues in the 85th Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Men Who | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...Crimson, Jed Fitzgerald finished 57th, in 27 min., 18 sec., while Mac Brown placed 73rd, in 26 min., 31 sec. and Ed Martin came in 85th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Benjamin Places 31st in IC4A Meet | 11/18/1958 | See Source »

...complete a record of good legislation already begun by the 85th Congress the country needs the election of Mr. Eisenhower's radicals. In one sense they are radical--their entrance into the government will assure an atmosphere of action and irreverence that has been sadly lacking in politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Left of Muddle | 10/30/1958 | See Source »

National G.O.P. leaders, who had once hoped that the unsavory record of labor racketeering would rub off on labor-oriented Democrats, all but gave up trying to hang failure of the Kennedy-Ives labor bill on the Democratic 85th Congress. No less a campaigner than Vice President Nixon warned that the issue would get all mixed up, could easily backlash to brand the G.O.P. as antiunion. Bigwig Democrats meanwhile whistled merrily, predicted a pro-labor vote that would swell the Democratic landslide. Fact was that the labor bossism issue was a sleeper and much of the whistling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Labor Issue | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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