Word: congressmen
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Rubber Stamp. Designed to please everyone down on the farm, the bill has pleased hardly anyone on Capitol Hill. Legislators shudder at the prospect of a farmers' free-for-all as each group fights for the best deal it can get. Many big-city Democratic Congressmen want nothing to do with legislation that fattens the farmer -at the expense of the consumer. But what really irks both parties in both chambers is the fact that the bill takes away from Congress the power to write farm legislation and gives it to the farmers and Agriculture Secretary Freeman. Under...
...Administration aimed its biggest guns at beating down Southern Democratic opposition to the Kennedy bill. Speaker Sam Rayburn swung among Congressmen from Texas to Tennessee, telling them that a Democratic President's prestige was at stake. Other proponents dangled patronage bait, reminded doubting Democrats that Kennedy will soon be awarding 73 new federal judgeships. They also warned that any "nay" voter surely would be branded as "antilabor"-an argument that particularly moved the Democratic co-author of the Landrum-Griffin labor law, Phil Landrum, who yearns to become Governor of Georgia and would like labor's support. Stepping...
Next day Bourguiba moved up to Capitol Hill to address a joint session of Congress. An eloquent orator and a practiced politician ("I am a political animal"), Bourguiba was right at home among the Congressmen and Senators. Said he: "What your country needs is not satellites who vote with you automatically on all issues because they want your money, but friends who support you from conviction and who may also oppose you from conviction. I can assure you that Tunisia will always tell you when we disagree with you, just as we will always applaud you when we believe...
...Shepard's flight was nevertheless a great U.S. gain, a shot in the arm for U.S. enthusiasts. U.S. spacemen, and the businessmen, engineers, Congressmen and assorted civilians who support them, are once again dreaming brave dreams. Daring and hopeful projects are making the rounds: there is confident talk of nuclear rockets that will penetrate far into space, giant, solid-propellant boosters to lift great weights off the earth and permit manned flights far beyond the known world...
...twelve years, at the beginning of each new session of Congress, Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Carroll Kearns has methodically offered a resolution demanding that a congressional delegation be dispatched to recount the gold buried at Fort Knox. The resolution was what Congressmen call "constituent bait," designed solely to impress Daughters of the American Revolution, who are powerful in Kearns's home district. Year after year the Kearns resolution and dozens of similar motions have been ignored by the House Rules Committee and allowed to die decently-as the authors expected. But last week, to the surprise of Carroll...