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...size and scope and basic inconsistency an insult to the intelligence of the American public." G.O.P. Whip Les Arends, who had never before voted against a foreign aid program, warned that this time he would, unless there were substantial "retrenchment and revision." In private, Republican Leader Charles Halleck uttered his own blunt comment on the bill: "This amount is too damned...
...containing a Barry Goldwater obviously directs his truculence and conservatism toward overcoming this difficulty. Long regarded as the leader of Republican liberalism, Rockefeller is today attempting to comfort, if not actually placate, his more conservative associates. He can now tell them that he is saying the same things as Halleck and Dirksen. If the recent compliments paid him by Senator Goldwater have any meaning, Rockefeller can consider his strategy successful...
...Charlie Halleck is mighty sorry that he ever bit into this apple," chortled a House Democratic leader last week. "They've picked the worst possible issue to fight us on and we're going to lick...
Lick 'em they did. Next day the House approved a $450 million appropriation for emergency public works, which had only a few days before been voted down by the House Appropriations Committee. Minority Leader Halleck, who had led a party-line fight against the bill, was disappointed. But he could hardly have been surprised: the public works appropriation was tied to aid for economically depressed areas; as such, it affected the home districts of a vast majority of Representatives. And since when have politicians started voting against the pork barrel...
...began calling and wiring Congressmen, telling them what the money would mean to the old home town. Texas' Democratic Representative Wright Patman inserted in the Congressional Record a 33-page list of all the communities that had applied for money under the bill. All this activity enraged Charlie Halleck. "They were really bludgeoning and blackmailing,'' he fumed...