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...urged Congress to boost minimum social security benefits (from $33 a month to $43), lift the minimum wage (from $1 an hour to $1.15 immediately, then to $1.25 within two years), stretch out unemployment compensation payments, and pass a depressed-areas bill. Said House Republican Minority Leader Charles Halleck of those proposals: "We find no great quarrel with them, but we do not find them earthshaking...
...House to nearly 2 to 1, most lopsided majority since the 19303. What made the Rules Committee more troublesome than before was that Rayburn could no longer get any cooperation from the Republicans. Compromiser Joe Martin was deposed from the Republican leadership by Indiana's tough, uncompromising Charlie Halleck (and last week registered his vote against Halleck and for Rayburn). Halleck filled the Republican seats on Rules with hard-bitten party men and happy days were gone again...
...Northern and Western states solidly behind him, plus a sprinkling of Southern Democrats, Rayburn thought he could count on enough liberal Republican votes on his side to assure a majority on the floor. But then House Republican chieftains, captained by Indiana's gut-fighting Minority Leader Charles A. Halleck, decided to make opposition to the Rayburn plan an official party stand. That move dragged all but 20 or so of the Republican liberals out of the Rayburn camp. Then some of the Southern Democrats who had agreed to vote with Rayburn changed their minds...
...before the scheduled showdown, it appeared that the outcome might be decided by a margin of three votes, or even less. "That's too close for comfort," said a Rayburn lieutenant. Mister Sam decided to postpone the floor battle until this week. "The New Frontier," jeered Charlie Halleck, "is having trouble with its first roundup...
...Indiana. Minority Leader Charlie Halleck comfortably won a 14th term, overcoming the massive resistance of big labor unions which backed Democrat George H. Bowers...