Word: gorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bloc of Republicans and Southern Democrats. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson pointedly made no effort to use his vote-pulling power on Kennedy's behalf. Moreover, a cluster of liberal Democrats whose votes might have helped were not even in town for the debate, e.g., Tennessee's Albert Gore, who 16 weeks before was lecturing the Senate about the unemployment breadlines back home. And of the liberals on hand, not all sided with Kennedy and Douglas. On the key motion to substitute Kennedy's broad proposals for Harry Byrd's limited aims. Kennedy lost Arizona...
...Senate and House conferees, led by Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, ignored a ukase from leaders of both houses, voted to keep provisions against oversized billboards on some 25,500 miles of interstate highways to be built with matching federal funds. As a result, the $7.2 billion highway-construction bill, the first to contain an overall federal anti-billboard policy, was quickly approved by both houses, sent to the President...
...shunned G.I. loans. The increase was permitted to stand only because Vice President Nixon threw his vote to the Republican side to break a 47-47 tie. ¶ With the help of six Republican votes, the Senate Public Works Committee followed Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore in unanimously authorizing an additional $600 million speedup in road building this year. The Administration had called for a more modest increase that would not begin until next year. ¶ Eleven Republicans joined 39 Democrats as the Senate, by a 50-10-43 vote, adopted a resolution to freeze farm price supports...
Next came a call to Dick Russell about some business of the Armed Services Committee. Then in came Tennessee's Albert Gore to discuss plans for speeding up antirecession highway spending. New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, chairman of the Public Works Committee, joined Johnson and Gore, agreed to skip hearings on the highway bill and clear it for Senate consideration by this week. Lyndon Johnson left his office at a lope, looked in at a meeting of the Armed Services Committee, trotted back to his office, gulped down a cup of hot bouillon, greeted Minnesota's Hubert...
...people of this country are in serious economic trouble," cried Michigan's Pat McNamara. With Massachusetts' John Kennedy, McNamara co-sponsored a bill to fatten state unemployment benefits and make them run for 39 weeks instead of the now-usual 26. Tennessee's Albert Gore introduced a bill to boost federal aid to state and local governments for public-works projects. In keeping with a grand design sketched out by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson-who was working on the economy when not busy with space-Senate Democrats were drafting six other recession-inspired bills, calling for increased...