Word: democratic
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...point, as the Senate neared its fifth week of civil rights debate, Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, the bill's floor manager, could not even raise a quorum. Only 39 Senators were present. Of the absentees, 44 were civil rights supporters, three of them -Rhode Island's John Pastore, Missouri's Edward Long and Washington's Warren Magnuson - "captains" of Humphrey's Democratic team. For the first time in nearly two years, the Senate was forced to adjourn because it had been unable to muster a majority needed to do business...
Siren Song. Where was everyone? Well, Washington Democrat "Scoop" Jackson was at home dedicating a new forest service laboratory. New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson was in Albuquerque powwowing with state Indian organizations. Utah's Senators, Democrat Frank Moss and Republican Wallace Bennett, were at the annual conference of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City. Nebraska Republican Roman Hruska was in Omaha at state Republican Founders Day ceremonies. "When the siren song of politics calls," said one Senate aide, "they can't resist...
During 16 days of drone-and-drawl talk, Southern Democrats had argued that the Senate should not even bring the civil rights bill up for consideration. With those preliminaries well over, the time had arrived for the start of formal debate, and the bill's backers had a chance to present their case. Said Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, floor manager for the measure: "I will attempt to lay the affirmative case for the bill before the Senate...
Time Clocked. And so the talkfest continued - but by no means all of the time wasting had been done by Southern Democrats. Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger gave a speech on "Cigarettes -Tried and Found Guilty." Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey lauded "20 consecutive years of membership growth" of the Retail Clerks International Association. Montana Democrat Lee Metcalf complained about the Montana Power Co.'s electric rates. South Dakota Republican Karl Mundt fretted about trade with Communist Poland, and Kansas Republican Frank Carlson worried about the cattle farmers' plight...
Exasperated beyond endurance, New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton finally let fly at the fact that his fellow civil rights proponents were "contribut ing innocently or inadvertently to the so-called filibuster." He said he had been holding a watch as Virginia Democrat Willis Robertson, who makes no bones about being one of the filibusterers, spoke directly on the topic of civil rights. Said Cotton: "I discovered that when the Senator from Virginia was credited with having occupied the time from approximately 10:30 until approximately 1:30, nearly one of those three hours was taken up by other Senators...