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...foreign ministers' talks at Geneva (probable date: May 11), after that for a parley at the summit (probable location: Geneva). Next morning the President called in congressional leaders-Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and House Minority Leader Charles Halleck-gave a total briefing. Said Speaker Rayburn afterward: "The upshot of it is that we are united. We don't have any political parties when it comes to this. We think with the President that we must remain firm...
...blackmail picketing. In the Senate Labor Committee, and then, if necessary, on the floor, Senate Republicans will attempt to substitute the Administration package for a milder bill introduced by Massachusetts Democrat Jack Kennedy. Since the House Labor Committee is distinctly unfriendly to Ike's bill, Minority Leader Charles Halleck will wait, make his fight on the House floor. Halleck estimates he has votes enough there "to write a good bill...
House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck of Indiana emphasized that this did not mean a firmness which barred a negotiated settlement...
...This seems to be the opening of the battle of the budget," said House Republican Leader Charles Halleck as the Democratic 86th Congress took up its first major pieces of legislation. "Already the budget busters are on the move." Charlie Halleck was dead right: the 1959 battle of the budget was flaming on all fronts last week-and there was little doubt that the budget busters were ahead in the preliminary skirmishes...
...already taken the trouble to hint that he will veto massive Democratic housing and airport legislation programs -they will be held accountable for the resulting deficit. The President has hinted at a tax cut next year if the line is held this year, and House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck has all but promised it; at a time when taxes are climbing at state and local levels, big-spending Democrats might be held responsible for knifing the cut. If the Democrats go along with the budget -and if it does balance as promised -the Republicans can claim the credit...