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...Repulblican Chairman??of the Senate Armed Services Committee wants to get a second opinion on how the war in Iraq is going, where does he turn? To the Pentagon, but not to the top brass this time. In an unusual closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill last week, Virginia's John Warner, joined by Democratic Senators Carl Levin of Michigan and Mark Dayton of Minnesota, sat across the table from 10 military officers chosen for their experience on the battlefield rather than in the political arena. Warner rounded up the battalion commanders to get at what the military calls "ground...
...early 1958, through the inexorable workings of seniority, Mills became committee chairman???and soon suffered a stunning setback: the House rejected the very first major bill that he brought to the floor as chairman (it was a measure to extend the unemployment benefits of jobless people who had used up their quotas ). That blow left a mark upon Mills. He has never lost another major bill on the floor, but in guarding against defeat he has sometimes delayed too long or wavered too much while trying to make a committee bill fail-proof. During the 1959 session, his excessive wariness...
...Chairman???Gentlemen, I hope, I am sure that the delegates of this convention and not those who are guests in the galleries will settle the policy of the Party...
Tariff Commission Chairman???Henry Prather Fletcher...
...three members of the Board who compose the sale committee (Commissioners Lissner, Haney, Hill) voted to accept the Dollar bid. Rear Admiral Benson voted No; E. C. Plummer, Vice Chairman, voted No; Mr. Frederick I. Thompson, Commissioner, voted No. It was up to T. V. O'C., the Chairman???genial, smiling Mr. O'Connor. He voted Yes. A telegram sped off to the old man in San Fran- cisco. He grinned happily. At Washington, members of the Shipping Board could hardly speak to one another. Debate began again...