Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep looking neat, let alone statesmanlike. After a year's study of the problem, a special independent committee last week recommended salary increases of about 80% . It sounded like a staggering raise, but even the new salary of $9,100 a year (v. $30,000 for U.S. Congressmen) is far from lavish, considering that all official expenses, except for local telephone calls, trips to constituencies, and $50 worth of stationery a year, must come out of the members' own pockets...
Since it is the mammoth task of the AEC to administer $3 billion worth of contracts with private businesses and universities, these conferences with Congressmen are quite frequent. Proposed contracts or old ones up for renewal invariably benefit or ignore various local interests, any one of which is likely to be near to the heart of some legislator. In addition to their individual duties, the five appointed Commissioners meet "as often as necessary and sometimes every day" to deal with questions of general policy...
...structure, except perhaps for minor changes in the House Rules Committee. Democratic leaders and President Johnson see no need to upset the great bulk of precedent when they stand to make such gains from the normal workings of the system. But there will be one important dispute, and two Congressmen--John Bell Williams of Mississippi and Albert Watson of South Carolina--may lose their seniority as Democrats because they publicly supported Barry Goldwater for the Presidency...
...Seven of the thirteen members of the Committee on Committees are from northern states, and they are unlikely to recommend that Williams and Watson retain their seniority as Democrats. The Democratic caucus is more liberal than its very liberal predecessors; it is even less likely to support the two Congressmen...
...full extent of the ideological shift. A majority of the defeated Republicans are conservatives who could rarely be enticed to support a Johnson Administration bill. Seven unseated Republicans in New York were conservatives, including such unbudgeable veterans as Katharine St. George and Steven Derounian. Texas lost its only Republican Congressmen, Goldwater-styled Bruce Alger and Ed Foreman. Five of Iowa's six Republican seats, held mostly by conservatives, slipped away; the survivor was H. R. Gross (TiME, June 15, 1962), who has won a reputation more as an anti-spendthrift than a conservative. On the other hand, many...