Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn head what appears to be a serene Democratic household, sitting by comfortably while the Republicans spat. But west of the Potomac, Democrats are becoming the party of bitterness, much of it directed squarely at the congressional leadership's budget feud with Eisenhower. For a fresh political survey, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Democratic Split...
...problem was to decentralize the thing and clarify the policy, simplify the administration and promote efficiency and avoid the concentration of stupidity. That is what I have been working on down here, too, the same way." The hearing room hushed expectantly when Wilson arrived at the Capitol to appear before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, for the Congress that used to bait him now knows him as Washington's saltiest character. The House's proposed 7% cut would "amount to gam bling unwisely with the security of the nation," he told the subcommittee, and if the House votes that...
...Notified Congress of his "full support" for a $1.5 billion, five-year federal school-construction program- worked out by liberal Democrats and Eisenhower Republicans on Capitol Hill as a compromise between Ike's original $1.3 billion, four-year request and a Democratic $3.6 billion, six-year plan...
Both before and after President Eisenhower took to TV to defend his besieged budget (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Capitol Hill Democrats snickered in the cloakrooms: "The Republican Party should demand equal time to answer him!" Utah's neo-dinosaurian Republican ex-Governor J. Bracken Lee, now chairman of the "For America" committee, did exactly that. By last week three major TV networks had turned down Republican Lee's request, leaving only Mutual Broadcasting Network as his last hope...
...injuries. Asked at his news conference whether he would go over the heads of the budget-cutting Senate Republican leadership-California's Bill Knowland and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges-to work with the Eisenhower Republicans who are fighting for his program, Ike left his hard-pressed Capitol Hill defenders sadly disappointed: "I don't see how it is possible for any President to work with . . . the whole Republican group except through their elected leadership. This doesn't mean that in special cases and for special purposes you don't." Did he intend to "punish...