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...Senators who will fight for a filibuster-busting rules change in the opening days of the 85th Congress. The attempt is foredoomed, and has diverted attention from a significant fact: there is a real possibility that in 1957 the Senate, its rules unchanged, and the House of Representatives will enact the first major civil-rights legislation since Reconstruction...
...power to enact such laws, Chafee said, comes mainly from the Fourteenth Amendment, but also from some provisions of the original Constitution...
...Democrats (Illinois' Paul Douglas, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Richard Neuberger, Montana's James Murray and Michigan's Pat McNamara), Humphrey circulated for publication a "Democratic Declaration of 1957." Its message: as soon as the Congress opens, make an attempt to end Senate filibusters and enact civil-rights legislation...
...When the constitutional amendment has been approved, enact an appropriately revised personal income...
...distinct Democratic program and philosophy, Senator Johnson has maintained his wait-and-see-what-Ike-says attitude. He has, in addition, ignored the fact that the voters gave the Democrats a majority in the legislative branch of the government. The victory was a clear mandate for the Democrats to enact the program on which they campaigned...