Word: celler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rump Groups. Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler, serving his 22nd term, made another point by reading to Katzenbach a passage from Madison's Federalist Papers urging "frequent elections" for House members to ensure their "immediate dependency" on the people...
...challengers for their own seats (although the proposal as now drafted would force a Representative to resign at least a month before Election Day if he decided to run for the Senate). Some House members who face little challenge in their districts also are skeptical. Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, a 22-term Congressman and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, reasons: "The House represents the people, and they should have the right to register their will more often than every four years...
House in presidential-election years. Thus after 1972, when it would take effect-and when Johnson himself will no longer be a candidate-the presidential party could not suffer its traditional off-year losses in the House. By strengthening the presidential coattails, the amendment, in Celler's words, would make the House "subservient to the presidential will." Since the President has no veto power over constitutional amendments, Congress can submit to the states any draft it chooses. An alternative to the Johnson proposal would provide for staggered elections, with half the House members running every two years. But even...
...demonstration, will be defended by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which announced that it would challenge the law's constitutionality. As for Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey's decision to reclassify as 1-A draft-card burners and sit-in demonstrators at draft boards, Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, objected that this "degrades" the system. Replied Hershey: "Any deliberate, illegal obstruction of the administration of the law cannot be tolerated...
...sampling: Max Lerner, Senator William Dodd, Senator Hugh Scott, Roger Hillsman, Representative Emanuel Celler...