Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first few months in office, the President did pretty well on Capitol Hill: he got through his proposals for a minimum wage increase, aid to depressed areas, and the creation of 73 new federal judgeships. But in recent weeks his foreign policy failures have taught Congressmen that the President is far from infallible-and that they can vote against him without incurring too much wrath from the folks back home. Last week 18 Democratic Senators joined Republicans in voting 52 to 38 against an Administration proposal to clear the backlog of cases before the Securities and Exchange Commission by giving...
...persuaded two Catholic and Democratic members of the House Rules Committee to vote against clearing the public school bill until the committee also cleared the parochial school measure. When and if the public school bill does get out of Rules, McCormack's tactics will probably have infuriated enough Congressmen to ensure the bill's defeat...
Twin Targets. Meeting in Washington with industry spokesmen and Congressmen from textile states, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs George W. Ball made it plain that the Administration had no intention whatever of putting unilateral U.S. quotas on imports of foreign cloth. Instead, the U.S. was trying to work a squeeze play...
Letters by the thousands rolled in to U.S. editors and Congressmen-and they were overwhelmingly against the exchange. Congress itself was sharply opposed. Balanced against such feelings was the evidence that Castro's ransom demands had boomeranged against him as far as Latin American sentiment was concerned: national committees were gathering funds to rescue the Cuban invaders in a dozen Latin American states, and the whole affair had finally convinced thousands of Latinos, at long last, that Fidel Castro was in fact a Communist criminal...
...foreign newsmen packed the State Department's Washington auditorium last week along with Senators, Congressmen and Chief Justice Earl Warren of the Supreme Court. The big attraction: first full-dress public report by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on its Mercury man-in-space program. All foreign embassies got invitations and many sent representatives, including the Russians and Hungarians. Everyone got a 116-page illustrated book on the medical aspects of Commander Alan Shepard's memorable 15-minute flight from Cape Canaveral...