Word: bipartisanism
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Under construction since 1958, Washington's new $70 million House office building will not be ready for its congressional tenants until 1964, but it already has an honored name. Whisked through Congress with the sort of bipartisan speed that would have pleased him was a resolution naming the edifice after the late Sam Rayburn, the man who served longer as Speaker-17 years-than any other. By the same resolution, two nearby House office buildings will now be known after a couple of Mister Sam's Republican predecessors-one, built in 1908, for iron-willed Joseph Gurney ("Uncle...
...bipartisan consensus in foreign has produced half-truths, confused and contradictory policy," declared. He charged that major parties go down the line the same old saws and conventional truths," and said he is running as independent "to challenge them in the own state...
...every denizen of the U.S. Capitol knows, legislative history is sometimes made over a friendly bipartisan glass of bourbon or Scotch. The convivial sessions in Charlie Halleck's "Clinic" or Lyndon Johnson's princely rumpus room can be as important as any committee hearing or party caucus. Even House Speaker John McCormack, a teetotaler, has decided as a matter of legislative policy to continue the gently liquid "Board of Education" meetings held by Sam Rayburn and earlier Speakers...
...former Strategic Services officer emphasized the need for disarmament and expressed hope that his presence in the force debate in areas where bipartisan agreement discussion...
...participate in the affair because it had developed into an essentially partisan Republican rally, which included a well-known political extremist. I urged that the program be broadened to include anti-Communists who were liberals and Democrats, for the anti-Communist cause can succeed only as a broadly based bipartisan movement...