Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lopsided committee vote was not so decisive as it seemed. Several Senators who voted to send the treaty along to the floor pointedly reserved their right to change their minds when actual ratification came up. And the lone committee dissenter, Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, insisted that if certain doubts were satisfied, he would probably vote for ratification...
Heel-Dragging. The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 90 to 2-with only Texas Republican John Tower and Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse voting against it. Morse, although long known as one of labor's most vociferous champions, denounced the railway unions in a scathing Senate speech. Cried he: "I have never seen the kind of political lobby in operation that I have seen in recent days on the part of the railroad brotherhoods. [They] must take the full responsibility for the adoption of the first compulsory arbitration law in the history of Congress. The carriers have...
...hardly wait to assault the bill on the House floor. Cried Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "The day and the hour are at hand to begin ending this foolish notion that it is within the capability of the American people to solve all the problems of the world." Florida Democrat James Haley hoped that Congress would kill "this gigantic boondoggle...
...political mileage out of a minor Senate subcommittee job than the late Estes Kefauver. As chairman of the Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee, he mounted crusading investigations into a myriad of alleged wrongs, from price rigging in the electrical industry to overcharging by drug companies. To replace the Keef, Mississippi Democrat James O. Eastland, chairman of the parent Judiciary Committee, last week named a man who is every bit as liberal as Kefauver was, but far less flamboyant and aggressive: Michigan Democrat Philip A. Hart, 50.* While Kefauver often seemed to regard bigness as evil and businessmen as knaves, Hart served...
...Named to Kefauver's Appropriations Committee post was Wisconsin Democrat William V. Proxmire, an unorthodox liberal who called the appointment "a golden opportunity to keep federal spending down...