Word: aikens
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Clean Sweep. During last month's Senate filibuster, Vermont's rustic George Aiken, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, almost despaired of bringing the Administration's farm bill to a vote during the Senate's session-end log jam. Since his committee had voted against him, he faced a major floor fight to restore President Eisenhower's flexible formula...
When the fight started last fortnight, Aiken brought up his amendment to authorize supports ranging from 80%-90% of parity. Later he made a careful nose count of the Senate, learned that the vote would be too close for comfort. Deciding that the 82½%-90% scale which the House of Representatives had previously voted could carry, Aiken asked Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel to propose it. This shored up Schoeppel's wavering support and clothed the plan with the mantle of a wheat-state Senator. For the prestige of sponsoring the winning compromise, and for the promise of presidential...
When, on a 49-44 vote, the Schoeppel amendment was adopted, the nation had a policy of flexibility, and President Eisenhower had harvested a bumper legislative crop. With the farm-bloc diehards thus shaken, George Aiken moved in to score a clean sweep on other provisions of the bill. In fast succession, the Senate beat away the chaff of demands for 1) increasing price supports on soybeans and feed grains (oats, rye, barley, grain sorghums), 2) imposing cattle supports at a rigid 80% of parity, and 3) pegging dairy supports at 80% instead of the 75% set by Agriculture Secretary...
Without another word, Fulbright moved that the committee substitute Richards' amendment for Knowland's. Voting with Fulbright for the motion were Republicans Smith, Alexander Wiley and George Aiken, Democrats Walter George, Theodore Green, John Sparkman and Guy Gillette. On record against it went Republicans Knowland, Homer Ferguson, Bourke Hickenlooper and William Langer and Democrat Mike Mansfield. Dulles had won his point, over the opposition of his own party's Senate leaders...
...Senate, where Agriculture Committee Chairman George Aiken had been predicting "a bare majority" for the Benson program, the House vote changed the odds. Said Vermont's Aiken: "We'll get an adequate majority...