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Inevitably there was talk that Congress must reform its rules so as to streamline the legislative process. There was even a proposal that the Senate require that all debate be germane to the legislative issue at hand. That notion got guffaws from Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. "A germaneness rule for this body?" he asked. "Ha, ha, ha; and, I might...
Trying to hasten action by the Senate Finance Committee on tax-cut legislation, Johnson summoned Republican Floor Leader Everett Dirksen, a key member of the committee, to the White House for a poached egg breakfast. "Why don't you go on back up there and get that Finance Committee moving?" demanded the President. "Let's get a ten-minute limit on speeches and debate put on that committee." Replied Dirksen to the man who first achieved national fame as a skilled Senate lead er: "Lyndon, you know that place well enough to know...
...First Statement. Johnson and Lady Bird emerged from the plane and were quickly engulfed by the men Johnson has known best in his quarter-century of Government service: the leaders of Congress. There was little talk. Senate Majority whip Hubert Humphrey cried openly. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and Majority Leader Mike Mansfield gripped Johnson's hands...
...guarantee Russian payments to commercial traders in the U.S.-Soviet wheat deal. That threatened to throw the aid bill or the wheat deal-or both-back into a welter of confusion and conflict. Only under the urging of both Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen did Mundt finally agree to withdraw his amendment and to submit it later as separate legislation...
...program, the situation may already have gone beyond remedy by words, no matter how reasonable. Not even a bipartisan effort by the Senate's leaders could stem the anti-foreign aid tide. In the vain hope of preventing worse cuts, Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield and G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen had agreed to drop $385 million from the $4.2 billion recommended by Foreign Relations. But the Senate went even farther, whacked $25 million from the Development Loan Fund, $125 million from the President's foreign aid contingency fund, reapplied $75 million of that to increase the Alliance for Progress...