Word: 86th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roughest, bitterest brawl of the 86th Congress. Into Washington poured sacks full of mail from the folks back home. Lobbyists swarmed through Capitol corridors. Worried Congressmen cussed, consulted and conspired. Moving toward a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives was the year's most intensely debated legislation: a labor bill aimed at ending the racketeering and hoodlumism that had become all too evident in some unions, especially the mighty International Brotherhood of Teamsters under its president, James Riddle Hoffa. The House had three choices before...
...tough Politico Charlie Halleck knew that the issues were not all that black or white. Key Democrats of the labor committee, in voting out the bill that he called "watered down," had marched uphill into the muzzles of Big Labor's biggest guns in one of the 86th Congress' bloodiest unsung battles. And it was Charlie Halleck himself who had provided six extra votes to push them over...
Hours after the Democratic congressional landslide rumbled down last November, nimble Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson proposed to build upon it "a bold housing program" suitable to the big-spending tastes of his party's enlarged liberal wing. He gave it top priority when the 86th Congress convened in January, threw aside the President's modest request for a six-year, $1.6 billion program, hammered a $2.6 billion plan through the Senate by early February. Then Dwight Eisenhower's budget battle began to take hold, and the companion House bill, delayed until...
...then, as an epitaph for this 86th "Vendetta" Congress that at a time when foreign nations, both infant and aged, sought for some cynosure, this Congress was noted for the elevation of personal grudges, the exemplification of the unworthy argumentum ad hominem, far above any rational, sensitive investigation...
...think they have changed their minds." Ike's sidelong glance at one of the darkest moments of his Administration betrayed not at all the fact that White House staffers are wearing earsplitting grins behind closed doors, marveling at the too-good-to-last Administration success with the Democratic 86th Congress. Not only had the balanced budget carried the day, but in the U.S. Senate, spawning ground for 1960 Democratic presidential hopefuls. Democrats were fighting Democrats with increasing ferocity...