Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the next ten days the White House used every resource to swing additional Democrats behind the bill. The Administration put together a package of 13 amendments to placate Congressmen from farm districts. White House liaison men prowled the Capitol corridors, cornering and cajoling doubtful Democrats...
...reducing the costs of price-support programs, the bill would have clamped on U.S. farmers a system of production and marketing controls far more extensive than any yet seen in U.S. agriculture (see box). On this basis, it was opposed by many farmers, and therefore by many farm-district Congressmen. The American Farm Bureau Federation denounced the bill as "folly" and fought it tooth and nail...
When he derides Eastern Congressmen as being members of the long-weekending "in-Tuesday-and-out-Thursday club," he can point to his own remarkable record: in the past 14 years he has answered 97.1% of all roll calls. Unlike most Representatives, he stays on the floor between roll calls, listens carefully to the debates...
...polecat speech, Andersen complained that his fellow Congressmen had been "shying off" since the Billie Sol case broke. "Come and say hello to H. Carl Andersen," he pleaded. "Come and shake my hand." Afterward, some kindly Congressmen did go up to him and say hello and shake his hand. But Andersen's political future had been heavily clouded by the Estes case, and he recognized the fact by announcing that, after winning twelve House terms as a Republican, he would run for re-election this fall as an "independent" rather than risk defeat in a G.O.P. primary...
...brotherly love is wearing a bit thin in Alabama these days. And among the nine Congressmen running for eight seats, Boykin was both the oldest and the richest; many Alabamans apparently figured that he was the one who could most afford to retire to private life. In 14 past elections, folks had remembered the ebullient fellow who had hauled water for construction gangs at eight, become a business success at 16, a near millionaire at 21. But now Boykin's was simply a case of love's labor's lost...