Word: democratized
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Four other female House members rose to second the idea. But Oregon Democrat Edith Green went and spoiled all the fun. "At the risk of being called an Aunt Jane, if not an Uncle Tom," she said, "let us not add any amendment that would get in the way of our primary objective." Her logic failed to impress the House. It passed the amendment, 168 to 133, to the delight of a woman in the gallery, who shouted, "We made it! We made it! God bless America!" She was promptly ejected...
...thing, Republican Senate leaders like Illinois' Everett Dirksen have already announced themselves as opposed to the bill's public accommodations section. For another, the bill, when it arrives from the House this week, would ordinarily be sent first to the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi Democrat James Eastland. If left up to Eastland, the measure would stay in committee forever. Therefore plans have been made to "meet the bill at the Senate door" and, with the help of some complex and unusual parliamentary strategy, bypass Eastland's committee. But not even that will forestall a Democratic...
Under pressure to support a Democratic President, Democratic liberals several times found themselves in embarrassing situations. One of the most embarrassing arose from Connecticut Democrat Abe Ribicoff's proposal that parents be permitted tax credits up to $325 a year for each child's college expenses. Torn between a longtime liberal advocacy of all-out aid to education and his loyalty to the Administration, Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey finally voted against this amendment-even though he had previously been one of its cosponsors. The college credit lost...
Minnesota Democrat Eu gene McCarthy tossed in a "working girls" amendment that would have permitted unmarried taxpayers over 35 to automatically qualify as a "head of household," thus putting them in a tax bracket about midway between that of a single person and a married couple filing jointly. Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, floor manager for the tax bill, poked fun at the plan, claimed somewhat irrelevantly that it would help couples who live in sin. "In my state," he drawled, "that kind of relationship is recognized as a situation in which two people have 'took up.' The amendment...
Republicans tried to repeal the 10% excise taxes on jewelry, furs, cosmetics and luggage. Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore, who claims to represent "the jewelry capital of the world" (Providence is a leading manufacturer of costume jewelry), came to the G.O.P.'s aid, cried: "Let's make our women beautiful. Let us not tax beauty." But enough Democrats did vote against beauty to beat the amendment, 48-45. Iowa Republican Bourke Hickenlooper wanted to repeal the tax on ball-point pens, lost decisively...