Word: billing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheshire Cat. Let me say that nonsegregated housing without a housing bill does not amount to anything . . . We are declining to make political capital out of a situation readymade for getting votes...
...idea, of course, was to put Northern Democrats on the spot if they helped defeat the amendment, to stir up a Southern filibuster against the bill if the amendment passed. When Illinois' Douglas tried to head off the maneuver, Republican Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry moved in with a taunting counterattack: "Does the Senator mean that this small and gallant group of liberals is going to vote for the amendment or does he mean it is going to vote against it? Being liberals, of course they would vote to support an amendment which provides that there shall be no discrimination...
Alice In Wonderland. Freshman Douglas stood his ground. He was as solid as any man for civil rights. But, he cried, "What would happen if we adopted the Bricker amendment? The answer is very simple. It would inevitably defeat the whole housing bill itself . . . It is no idle mind reading when I say that the adoption of his amendment would not win over the junior Senator from Ohio to support of the bill which he so sincerely dislikes . . . Senators will probably remember the passage in Alice in Wonderland describing the smile of the Cheshire Cat, which continued after...
...Senator Taft snapped angrily: "We all saw the deal made here on the Senate floor. There is no question that the committee bought off the filibuster by agreeing to increase the appropriation $12,500,000." Finally, in the twelfth hour of continuous debate, the Senate approved the full housing bill by a vote...
Senators had wanted to know the size of the bill before buying the Atlantic pact itself. Now that the tab was face up, Congress was more relieved than alarmed. Even Georgia's closefisted Democrat Walter F. George, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, seemed ready to go along...