Word: democratics
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Slowly, the members filed up the aisles to cast their votes, putting green ballots against the SST funding into a box beside Teller Yates, red votes to keep the plane alive into a box supervised by a pro-SST teller, California Democrat John McFall. The green line looked longer, and Yates, a normally gregarious man whose face was furrowed with fatigue from the long fight, broke into a grin. "Green cards here," he shouted happily, as he saw that victory was his. The vote was announced as 217 to 203 against the plane. In the mandatory final vote the funds...
While the House rejection of the SST was led by Yates, Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte and Wisconsin Democrat Henry Reuss, the plane's most persistent and effective critic, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, loomed large. The stubborn Democrat (see box, page 13) has fought the plane from its inception; he kept feeding its House critics valuable information and staged a last-minute press conference to complain that the Administration was trying to gag one of the plane's scientific opponents: Dr. Gio Gori, of the National Cancer Institute who first agreed, but later refused, to testify about the potential...
Letter of Intent. Mills was understandably pleased with himself, but his smile soon froze. Nixon has been exasperated by Democrat Mills' opposition to the Administration plan for sharing federal revenues with the states; he also resents Mills' undertaking personal diplomacy in the Japanese textile matter, though both Secretary of State William Rogers and National Security Assistant Henry Kissinger favored Mills' unorthodox solution. No good, said Nixon, who reportedly feels that the restrictions obtained by Mills do not protect U.S. textile interests sufficiently. Now Nixon's men think they have found a way around Mills...
From the moment he took office nearly two years ago as the nation's chief health officer, Dr. Roger Egeberg was shunned like a man with a permanent case of flu. A Democrat among Republicans, Egeberg had been the Administration's second choice for the job of Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The first choice, Dr. John Knowles, was dumped under pressure from conservatives in the American Medical Association. Within a year, rumor had it that Egeberg would be dumped as well. He had publicly agreed with critics...
Most members of the Commerce Committee agreed. Michigan Democrat Philip Hart said that there is no time to talk about giving state action a chance to work "when there's a crisis." Hart is co-author of a federal bill that would provide no-fault payments for medical and rehabilitation expenses, plus up to $30,000 over 30 months for loss of income. Accident victims would be able to sue in court only if they suffered "catastrophic" injuries. Despite the Administration's timid position, some form of the bill stands a reasonably good chance of congressional adoption...