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...number-five singles, Kirsten Dirksen continued the rout with a 6-2, 6-4 blasting of Sarah Tonna. Caroline Barnett crushed Lori Rice in straight sets, 6-3, 6-0, at number-six singles...
...September 21, 1987. In the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington a crowd of journalists and congressional aides is briefed on a new research study advocating an oil import fee. The report makes the front page of The Boston Globe and gets prominent coverage in The Wall Street Journal...
...million in demonstration projects works out to just $2 million per congressional district spread over five years. Even though, to paraphrase the late Senator Everett Dirksen, a million here and a million there eventually add up to real money, that is a pretty meager sum alongside the public-works projects that used to be whooped through Congress in the days before the deficit doldrums. As Republican Congressman Jim Bunning of Kentucky cracked, "Calling this a pork-barrel bill is like calling a strip of bacon a luau...
Trying to pick a national flower has been a hardy perennial in Washington politics. More than 70 different bills have been introduced over the years, promoting a veritable bouquet of blossoms, including the carnation, corn tassel, chrysanthemum and even clover. The late Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois long campaigned for the humble marigold, praising its virtues in one flowery speech after another. His son-in-law, former Republican Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, held out for the marigold in Dirksen's honor. But Baker retired from Congress in 1984, and the rose finally won out as the House approved...
...Republicans discovered some of the burdens of governing. No longer could they snipe from the sidelines; they had to learn to make compromises and lubricate the legislative wheels. The experience has been sobering. Majority Leader Baker, the son-in-law and political heir of Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois, warned at the outset that supply-side economics would be a "riverboat gamble"; now he worries about how to cut the resulting federal deficits ($195 billion last year). State Governors, of course, have long since struggled to balance budgets. The pragmatist wing of the party includes Illinois Governor James...