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...Senate employees earning more than $10,000 a year disclose periodically the sources-not the amount-of outside income that exceeded 50% of their Senate pay. But when the measure reached the floor for debate, the Senate responded with a howl. Leading the chorus was Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen...
Finally, by a vote of 48 to 39, the Senate adopted a Dirksen motion to recommit the whole business to the Rules Committee. That body will now consider a substitute resolution, also offered by Ev, that would create an ethics commission to study conflict-of-interest problems in every branch of the Federal Government. It was hardly likely that any angels would get shot down soon...
...electric power, decide where airlines can fly and pipelines snake, police the stock market and determine the content of a tube of lip stick. They are the nation's 30 federal regulatory agencies - and their great powers over American life and business have become increasingly controversial. Senator Everett Dirksen calls them "the headless fourth branch of government...
...other so-called anchor men. Brinkley pretzels himself in an attempt to give the impression that he is doing his best to contain most of his natural wit, when actually he is straining to be funny. His best effort last week was his description of Illinois' Everett Dirksen as "a Shakespearean actor manque...
...difficult for me, or any other Republican, to believe that Senator Dirksen "fully intends to be on what he feels is the winning side." It is more factual to say that Dirksen is on the side that he feels is the right side-win, lose, or draw...