Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filibuster against the whole bill. Into this picture is injected a new element, the moderate Southerner, who is beginning to take a new look at the whole situation. These moderates are the businessmen who are achieving progressive integration in such cities more local political influence. The group also includes Congressmen from the old Confederacy who feel legislation is inevitable and are ready to vote for a fairly stiff civil rights bill, even if it endangers their political careers...
Advocates of a civil rights bill need the support of the businessmen in their communities and the votes of the Congressmen in the House and Senate if the present legislation is to pass in something approaching its current form. But here is the key point: Southern moderates, both in and out of Congress (especially in) will not be able to support a strong bill if increased Negro militancy makes it look as if they are capitulating to threats of violence. Their constituencies, softened slightly by the events of recent months, will harden into the old ways if thousands of Negroes...
First he kept everyone guessing. Every day, from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m., Goulart's futuristic presidential palace at Brasília was besieged by Congressmen, Senators, governors, labor leaders, industrialists, generals, and special pleaders of every stripe and shape. To each delegation, Goulart, always smiling, gave his "full support." He was, he said, intending to create a "homogeneous" Cabinet of kindred spirits dedicated to his three-year stabilization plan. Plane traffic in and out of Brasília was so heavy that the country's four major airlines set up temporary counters in the lobby...
...switch in two years? Some analysts leaped to the conclusion that Southern Congressmen had turned against Kennedy in anger at his civil rights policies. Yet a comparison of the 1961 and 1963 votes shows that precisely 52 Southern Democrats voted against the distressed-areas bill in both years. The difference was that this year only 15 Republicans voted for it, while last time 31 voted...
...includes loans to redevelop both industrial and rural areas, has at times been poorly administered. Wisconsin Republican John Byrnes cited, for example, a loan to build a tissue-paper manufacturing plant in Tomahawk, Wis., just when the tissue-paper industry as a whole is having a hard time. Other Congressmen were plainly tired of taking the heat from communities that wanted loans but failed to qualify for them under bureaucratic requirements. After the vote, Kennedy indicated that he will try to get the bill through the Senate and then back for another house vote...