Word: democrats
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Proud Daddy. Hardly anyone had a legitimate protest to offer. In the House debate on the medicare bill, Iowa Republican H. R. Gross forced Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and floor manager for the measure, to admit that he had "overlooked" a relatively small cost factor. No matter. Without amendment, the House passed the bill by a vote of 313 to 115, and at the announcement of the tally Democrats rose to their feet with a great shout. Speaker John McCormack rushed up to Mills, grabbed his hand and cried: "Congratulations, my dear friend...
...House Un-American Activities Committee, five Southerners joined the other four members in unanimously approving a full-scale investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. According to Chairman Edwin E. Willis, a Louisiana Democrat, a preliminary study showed that "shocking crimes are carried out by highly secret action groups within the Klans." And despite the committee's disrepute in some quarters for its blunt and into-every-corner antiCommunism, there were signs that it might prove the sharpest ax on Capitol Hill for cutting the Klan down to size. "Klanism is incompatible with Americanism," said Chairman Willis. "The South...
...City of Brotherly Love. But now the gateway is to be cut off from the rest of the city by a freeway carried on 22-ft.-high pillars. U.S. Senator Hugh Scott (Republican) claims "it desecrates the city's grand design." In agreement are Senator Joseph Clark (Democrat) and Mayor James H. J. Tate. Instead, they propose spending whatever funds are necessary to tunnel the expressway under the area, even though the aboveground one-mile segment as now planned will cost an estimated $35 million. But this is the kind of issue on which honest men may honestly differ...
Among them was North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, a former member of his state's Supreme Court, now a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. At the outset of hearings before the committee, Ervin took on Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach for a full seven hours...
...years in the Senate and two in the House, Florida's Representative Claude Pepper, 64, wandered Capitol Hill, not precisely friendless but somehow incompleat. Then, this January, Texas Democrat Jake Pickle, 41, took his seat in the House. Before anyone could say rubber baby-buggy bumpers, the two sponsored H.R. 2465, modifying a portion of the social security laws. It will be known to one and all, naturally, as the Pickle-Pepper bill. Purpose? Whereas, would winsome widows winning their way with welfare wealth wed wooers on social security themselves, why wish widows and wooers to lose whatever combined...