Word: bipartisan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Required for cloture: two-thirds of the Senators who are "present and voting." Thus, if all 100 Senators were present, 67 votes would be needed to stop the Democratic filibuster against the civil rights bill. The bill's bipartisan supporters say that now that they have presented the package of Dirksen-sculptured amendments, they will have the necessary votes when a cloture petition is filed, probably by the middle of this month. Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, leader of the filibuster forces, makes "no claim as to being able to beat the gag rule." If the bipartisan coalition...
...long while. First sent to the Congress by President Kennedy last June, it was partly changed by the House of Representatives and sent on to the Senate in February. It has languished in the chamber of winds during the longest filibuster in history, still faces substantive amendment under a bipartisan agreement achieved by Republican Everett Dirksen. Civil rights groups, without being specific, claim that it is too weak. The bill's opponents, without being specific, insist that it is so strong as to ruin the framework of the Republic. Herewith, what the civil rights bill, including the Dirksen amendments...
...city's antipathy to outsiders dates back to Roman times, when a legion garrisoned in "Bonna" was decimated by the warlike Batavi. Today local resentment manifests itself in Bonn's constant fight to keep the government from taking over existing buildings or precious real estate. Recently, with bipartisan backing, Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier disclosed plans for a new parliamentary center on the Rhine, consisting of a 25-story office building for Deputies, a twelve-story hotel and an 18-story press center, as well as a series of bridges across the railroad tracks. Bonn's burghers protested...
...coup. Ex-General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 64, tough right-wing dictator from 1953 until he was overthrown in 1957, is barred by law from politics, lives in semi-exile in his backlands home. Under no such restraint, his resurgent party lambasted President Guillermo León Valencia's bipartisan government for higher income taxes, deficit spending and spiraling living costs. Rojas-backed candidates piled up 21% of the vote, to win 27 seats v. six in the last Congress. Though the ruling Liberal-Conservative front was still well in control, Rojas' rise could pose a serious threat...
Last year the House Republicans made foreign aid a partisan measure. Ignoring Speaker McCormack's call for a bipartisan approach, they lined up almost to a man behind their leadership in demanding deep cuts in the authorization. Johnson, who has quite a bit of skill at such matters, could accept this challenge if he wanted to. He could make foreign aid an essential part of his political program instead of leaving it in the no-man's-land of "bipartisan foreign policy." Foreign policy is not bipartisan in an election year, and if Johnson would be willing to expend...