Word: congressmen
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Puzzling Paradox. For the signing ceremonies, Lyndon corralled 100 Congressmen and 300 artists, scholars and entertainers-a gathering illustrious enough to please the pickiest patron...
...aircraft carriers, have earned him the enmity but also the grudging respect of the military. His decision to close down 95 military bases last year (at an estimated savings to the taxpayer of $477 million a year) threatened local economies and brought cries of outrage from Governors and Congressmen-and Illinois Senator Paul Douglas' tribute: "You are the first man to have the courage...
...Congressmen voted to bring the bill to the floor; 218 even broke precedent by signing the discharge petition that freed it from the District Committee. But only 174 could be found to defend it on a vote against the substitute. So it appears that the opposition of conservatives to home rule, resentment at the arm-twisting used by the Administration to bring the bill to the floor, and the promotion of Lawrence O'Brien have permitted Washington's best chance ever for self-government to slip away. It may seem inevitable now that home rule will come some...
Under the existing system, Congress approves the payment each year. This year the payment is $43 million--12 per cent of the total District budget. But the Appropriations Committees review the entire budget. As a result some Congressmen have consistently blocked expenditures the District wanted to make. The classic example is the action of Rep. Andrew Natcher (D-Tenn.), chairman of the House District appropriations subcommittee, whose resistance has prevented replacement of the dilapidated Shaw Junior High School. Sen Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), head of the corresponding Senate subcommittee, has made welfare payments--particularly to parents of illegitimate children...
...Rejected, by a 228-to-143 vote in the House, a petition from the predominantly Negro Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenging the seating of five white Mississippi Congressmen on the grounds that 1) Freedom Democrats had not been allowed to enter candidates, and 2) most Mississippi Negroes could not vote in 1964. After two days of closed-door hearings, the House Administration Committee recommended that in future the House should "carefully scrutinize" elections for evidence of racial discrimination...