Word: democratically
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...rarely successful parliamentary device (it has not worked in the House since 1960), by which the signatures of a majority of House members automatically remove a bill from committee jurisdiction and put it before the whole House. Last week home-rule advocates got the necessary 218th signature from Illinois Democrat George Shipley, who came back to Washington just to sign the petition. No action on the bill can take place until Sept. 27. Meanwhile, opponents of the measure threaten some artful dodges of their own. But the District of Columbia is closer to running its own affairs than...
This time, Dirksen was reasonably confident that he had the votes. He counted Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd for sure and possibly New York Republican Jacob Javits as well. If Dirksen thought he had a deal, so did the Senate's liberals who understood that they could get their immigration bill cleared as soon as a vote-any vote-had been taken on reapportionment...
...helped feed the hogs on his father's farm in England, how he had milked cows during his wartime vacations from school ("I've never been able to stand milk since") and how, when he was a reporter on the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, he had helped out in his spare time in the vineyards and chicken houses on his mother's 50-acre ranch in the Napa Valley region of California. Now, on his suburban acreage in Westchester County, he is trying his not-necessarily-so-green thumb on apples (nine on the bough this year...
...being asked to add $300 million to their grocery bills for a farm program that farmers do not want." By that, he means the Agricultural Act of 1965-the farm bill-which cleared the House two weeks ago and is now before the Senate Agriculture Committee. The chairman, Lousiana Democrat Allen Ellender, is aghast at the rising cost of Government farm programs and the ever-increasing surpluses, appears grimly determined to do something about it this time...
...would vote for the bill as it stood. In more objective surveys, House Majority Leader Carl Albert and White House Legislative Aide Larry O'Brien both realized that the bread-tax issue would cause major defections; they figured 170 votes for the bill at most. As Massachusetts Democrat Thomas O'Neill said: "I do not intend to reduce the excise taxes on diamonds, to reduce the excise taxes on automobiles, to reduce the excise taxes on jewelry, and then to put a 2?, tax on bread so that every housewife in America will be irked at each member...