Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders from both parties. The worried President said: "We've got to do something about this present situation because the subcommittee bill doesn't have much chance to pass Congress. We've got to do something." MacGregor's proposal was discussed, and Kennedy asked the Congressmen what they thought. Manny Celler seemed willing, and the President appeared ready to consider...
...thought to be too strong to pass either House. And when the President sent his brother to ask the full committee to soften the bill, the flood of publicity that accompanied his testimony, ironically, scared the group so badly that it may actually approve the bill. Liberal Congressmen who might have voted to weaken the measure in the usually secret process of committee "markup" now shrink from seeming to oppose civil rights legislation. Republicans are not about to help the President escape from what is daily becoming a more embarrassing dilemma, and the Southerners are delighted to vote...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21--An important scoop on the civil rights bill was among the unexpected rewards picked up by the eight Harvard lobbyists for John W. Perdew '64 in their conversations with Congressmen, here today...
...students managed to talk in person with 10 Congressmen during the day, most of them judiciary committee members who were undecided between a strong Title III and the Administration's version, which applies only to school desegregation cases. But they spent many additional hours running up and down the halls of the two House office buildings, being told by smiling secretaries and "legislative assistants" that the Congressmen were not in, or too busy, and trying vainly to call Congressmen off the floor of the House...
...lobbyists thought they had made an impression on some Congressmen, but a few Congressmen, particularly Rep. William McCullough (R-Ohio) and Rep. George Senner (D-Arix.), were so firmly committed to the Administration's bill that they were not receptive to the students' argument. McCullough and Libonate did most of the talking themselves...