Word: halleck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Halleck...
...major problems Congress will have to buckle down to after it hears him: APPROPRIATIONS. What to do about the budget for fiscal 1954 which Harry Truman will leave behind. Eisenhower is anxious to cut expenditures, and a number of G.O.P. leaders, including House Majority Leader-to-be Charles Halleck of Indiana, have called economy the most important issue facing the new Congress...
...House, the Speaker will be one who has been there before: Massachusetts' durable Joe Martin, Speaker in the 80th Congress. The majority leadership probably will go to the man who held it in the 80th: Charles Halleck of Indiana...
...Foreign Affairs received merely a letter and press handouts from the department. When the resolution of inquiry came back to the floor, the House shouted down an attempt to drop it, instead set up a cry of protest about the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. G.O.P. Whip Charlie Halleck, scenting an upset, scurried around to line up votes. On a roll call, the House shattered custom by voting 189 (160 Republicans, 29 Democrats) to 143 to keep the resolution alive and formally to "direct" Dean Acheson to report...
...many Congressmen preferred the system of killing bills by smothering them in the Rules Committee rather than having to vote on them. Said Republican Charles Halleck solemnly: the Rules