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...might add: ho, ho, ho," observed Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois when recently asked his opinion on a proposed change in a procedural rule. The Republican Minority Leader's statement expresses concisely, if implicity, the two major reasons for the frustration of Congressional reform: (1) too many influential members, especially in the Senate, oppose basic reforms, and (2) there is a ludicrous discrepancy between the reformers' highest hopes and the remedial potential of their proposals...
...Dirksen Reported Opposed
While Republican leader Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-III.) is reportedly opposed, Republican opposition may not be unanimous. Conservatives, particularly Sens. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and Peter Dominick (R-Colo.), put similar, though more generous, bills in the hopper last session. These men have claimed tax credit is a "means for encouraging more effort at the private level" and therefore more healthy than direct Federal...
Apropos of nothing, Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen arose in the Senate last week to ornament a dreary debate. "Mr. President," orated Ev, "there is such a word as 'euphemism.' I do not think I have looked it up for years, but I suppose a 'euphemism' is 'something that seems like what it ain't.' Perhaps that is as good a definition as I can give. I am reminded of the man who filled in an application for an insurance policy. One of the questions he had to answer...
...Dirksen who pronounced the kindest epitaph for the year's session. "When all is said and done," he said, "the first session of the 88th Congress was not a 'do-nothing Congress' as some would have it or a 'dolittle Congress' or a 'standstill Congress.' The more appropriate term would be a 'stop, look, and listen, Congress...