Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kingfish, was unopposed in his race for re-election to the Senate, in this state that gave George Wallace over 50 per cent of its popular vote. All eight Democratic congressional candidates were easily reelected, five of them running unopposed. Among those returning to e Ninety-First congress are HUAC mogul Edwin E. Willis, arch-segregationist John R. Rarick, and F. Edward "Get rid of the First Amendment" Hebert...
...Cotton and the two incumbent Republican congressmen to victory. Cotton, one of the most conservative members of the Senate, won handily over popular Gov. John King. The split in the Democratic party following McCarthy's presidential win there is the main reason for King's defeat, eace candidate for Congress David C. Hoeh, was swamped by incumbent congressman James C. Cleveland. Hoeh was Eugene McCarthy's campaign manager and led the New Hampshire delegation to the Democratic National Convention. In New Hampshire's second district incumbent Republican Louis Wyman won a tough race with James Keefe, former administrative assistant...
...support of the regular Democratic machine and was never given much of a chance against the popular Javits. The New York House delegation remained largely the same but several races provided interest. In New York City Mrs. Shirley Chisholm, a Democrat, became the first Negro woman ever elected to Congress when she defeated James Farmer, former head of Core. Allard K. Lowenstein, another McCarthy candidate, won a House seat in the Fifth District in Nassau County, Adam Clayton Powell, the Harlem Congressman, who was excluded from the 90th Congress on charges of misusing federal funds was re-elected overwhelmingly, setting...
...must recognize our action as a stopgap to hold programs intact until an end to the war permits an expansion in the works of social justice here at home. Let us remember, however, that we must have a Congress and an Administration that will allocate the peace dividend to domestic needs. This was not the case after Korea...
...will also have to take a hard look at our nation's critical civilian needs, especially in our cities. A temporary extension of part of the tax surcharge, clearly marked for those purposes, should not be ruled out. I would want to give the Congress and the public a clear-cut choice between quicker tax reduction and quicker action on the unrelenting problems of poverty, squalor, crime, and injustice in our cities...