Word: congressmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Extended, in the Senate, impacted-areas school aid and the National Defense Education Act for another two years. The impacted-areas bill, which benefits 3.800 school districts in the home districts of 319 House members, had been used by congressional leaders to lure reluctant Congressmen into supporting what they didn't want (national aid to education) in order to get what they did want (federal school aid for their home districts). For example, Mississippi's Democratic Representative William Colmer, who helped block the national bills in the House Rules Committee, turned around and voted for the impacted-areas...
...appropriations failure could be remedied. Hardly had the session ended before Governor John Patterson called for a five-day special session. To keep passions from boiling again, Patterson suggested that the agenda be limited to appropriations. In that event, redistricting was a dead issue and Alabama's Congressmen would have to run at large in the 1962 election. Despite their years of service, none of the nine has a statewide reputation; all, as a result, would stand in danger of losing. The nine men themselves were acutely aware of the peril. Warned Albert Rains, a nervous veteran...
Even then, some leaders of Tancredo Neves' own party protested. But Goulart wore them down in long hours of argument. Said Goulart. assuming the role of statesmanlike compromiser: "The political parties know, the Congressmen know, everybody knows that I incline more to unite than to divide. I prefer to pacify than to arouse hate. I prefer to harmonize than to stimulate resentments.'' And he added: "I can smell the people and I smell of the people. I assume the presidency with the responsibility of a man who understands reality...
...predict the cost this year, but needs are obvious. Latest estimate of the public school classroom shortage is 156,000 against 132,400 a year ago. The defeat of President Kennedy's aid-to-education bill left many a school system in the lurch-although Congressmen who opposed the bill last week voted to help their own "federally impacted" districts, where the loss of such long-established aid would be political suicide. One clue to possible taxpayer reaction is the fact that last year 23% of all U.S. school-bond issues were rejected, including 37% in Michigan...
Reds would liven up the show with one of their water-throwing vehicles (they did not). Paar had decided earlier that ''because the Berlin crisis warrants sober consideration, we intend to treat it just that way." Back home on Capitol Hill. Congressmen snorted "shocking" and ''intolerable"; the Pentagon split all five sides and promptly removed one Berlin-based officer, admonished a second. Quipped Paar, "All I can say is it's going to get a hell of a rating for that show...