Word: dirksen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gentle Little Shove." Responsible Congressmen from both sides of the aisle protested in vain. Some of the reductions were made by extending the spending period for ECA and China aid from twelve to 15 months. Hoping to restore the twelve-month spending period, Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen warned: "If we fail in this first year we shall fail for good . . . This cut may be the gentle little shove that may throw the government of France into the ashcan." Minority Leader Sam Rayburn, his bald head glistening under the hot House lights, pleaded: "Let us not do too little...
Shouting their approval, the House bowled over the Dirksen amendment 148 to 113. Then, without even the formality of a record vote, it confirmed John Taber's cuts to the last dollar...
Appropriations Committeemen considered the President's budget, which had "staggered" Chairman John Taber of New York. Illinois' Everett Dirksen lectured his colleagues: "You will get no credit either in your constituency or in heaven for having wasted money...
...exceptions to this rule add further complications to November's balloting. The federal nature of our government causes party ideology to vary from state to state. In some elections a progressive Republican rates the nod over an unsavory Democratic candidate. But Republicans of the Stassen-Dirksen variety are far fewer than Democrats of the Monroney-Pepper-Mead mold. And, in the Congressional races at least, a mediocre Democrat is preferable to a mediocre Republican. A.G.O.P. majority in either house of the 80th Congress will mean two years of confusion and stalemate between the President and his legislature...
...tired House, Oklahoma's young, progressive A. S. Mike Monroney, Democrat, teamed with Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen to push the bill which had been fought through the Senate by Wisconsin's Robert La Follette Jr. In last week's maneuvers they lost the provisions for legislative policy committees for both minority and majority parties, and for an executive-legislative council. The reason: Speaker Sam Rayburn wanted to keep the four-man Democratic policy committee which meets with the President every Monday morning...