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Said Illinois Republican Edward Derwinski: "When I label this bill unsatisfactory, I am truly guilty of understatement, since this year, more than ever before, it represents by its size and scope and basic inconsistency an insult to the intelligence of the American public." G.O.P. Whip Les Arends, who had never before voted against a foreign aid program, warned that this time he would, unless there were substantial "retrenchment and revision." In private, Republican Leader Charles Halleck uttered his own blunt comment on the bill: "This amount is too damned...
...reaction to Carey's letter was-or should have been-entirely predictable. Replied Illinois' Republican Representative Edward Derwinski to Carey: "You and too many other autocratic union bosses are guilty of the un-American philosophy of class hatred." New York's Republican Representative Steven Derounian asked Carey for 10,000 copies of the letter "to distribute them to the residents of my district so they can see how you operate...