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...leader of a band of Senate liberals attempting to tack onto the voting-rights bill an amendment to outlaw poll taxes in state and local elections. The move was strongly opposed by President Johnson. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, and Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, who questioned the constitutionality of Teddy's amendment...
...Congress in which conservative use of this device against its traditional target, civil rights, was dealt a death blow by the urgency and overwhelming popularity of the issue, liberals found the procedure of invaluable use. A highly conservative measure directed against Supreme Court involvement in the reaportionment issue, the Dirksen-Mansfield amendment--note the participation of bipartisan leadership in this conservative measure--had been added as a rider to the foreign aid bill and seemed sure of passage. Since the House had already passed the much more extreme Tuck amendment virtually anything passed by the Senate would have become...
...course, there has been no complete shift. The threat of filibuster hanging over the voting rights bill has forced the administration to rely on Dirksen and such conservative influences of his as defeat of the poll tax amendment. And conservatives will still be able to use the devices they have used in the past, although, hopefully, greater liberal majorities and a more efficient liberal machine--partially DSG organized--will at least equalize the previously disproportionate amount of parliamentarian talent which conservatives...
There had been no doubt that with the support of Dirksen's Republicans and the Northern Democrats, there were enough votes not only to pass the bill but to get the necessary two-thirds majority to shut off debate. That was still the probability. But Teddy's move put the outcome in at least a little doubt...
...Some kind of alliance with that oosy- Dirksen" led President Johnson settle for a weak voting rights bill, Joseph L. Rauh Jr. '32, vice-chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, charged yesterday...