Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overflow crowd of reporters, photographers and Congressmen jammed the committee room for the crucial hearing before the Rules Committee. The session was delayed for 47 minutes while Martin, Majority Leader Charles Halleck and Rules Committee Chairman Leo Allen talked to G.O.P. committee members in Allen's private office, trying to nail down a majority vote. Tennessee's Carroll
From all appearances, Martin's leadership had won the day. If things went as most Congressmen thought they would, Joe Martin's victory was one for congressional history. His unprecedented move through the Rules Committee had saved both the EPT bill and congressional precedent in the only way they could have been saved together. And he had wound up so strong that he did not have to use his strength in a rock-crushing, party-splitting vote...
Civilian Control. Through it all, Washington's burdens grew. Congressmen hotly accused him of attempting to saddle the country with a military tyranny worse than that of England. It was 18 months before he was authorized to recruit a stable Continental line pledged to serve for the duration of the conflict. The Continental Army never had more than 16,782 regulars, and never had more than a few hundred pieces of artillery, but 2,000 private American vessels, armed with 18,000 guns and manned by 70,000 men, harassed English shipping in the hope of quick fortunes. Money...
...Whooped through a bill allowing Congressmen to deduct from their income tax, as business expenses, all the money they spend to live in Washington (such deductions are now limited to $3,000 a year). In the same bill, for economy's sake, they took away the Cadillac of Capitol Architect David Lynn, who has been a Government employee for 51 years...
Martha had enough guests without any gate-crashers: 428 Senators, Congressmen, ambassadors, admirals, generals, Cabinet officers, newsmen, lobbyists and some friends. Almost everybody who was anybody showed up, except the Supreme Court Justices, who were busy with life & death matters (see above). Joe McCarthy escorted his brunette ex-secretary, Jean Kerr. Asked by press photographers to pose for a picture with Miss Kerr, McCarthy snapped: "You know we don't pose for that kind of picture." A lot of guests went out of their way not to chat with McCarthy, yet he was not lonely. His committee counsel, little...