Word: hruska
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Willful Men. The compromise was supported by some previous opponents of any dilution of the filibuster, notably Democrat Russell Long. Such conservative Republicans as Roman Hruska and Robert Dole also turned around. They apparently felt that if they refused to compromise, the liberals might muster enough votes to gain a complete victory. On the first critical vote testing support of the compromise, it prevailed, 73 to 21. The holdouts included Republicans William Brock, Howard Baker, Barry Goldwater, Strom Thurmond and John Tower, as well as Democrats John Stennis and Herman Talmadge. The final vote to approve the compromise...
...following day, Eastland called his committee together on two hours' notice. Republican Senator Roman Hruska of Nebraska came prepared to spring the Administration's last gambit: a proposal to delay any decision on the nomination until the Senate completes its Watergate investigation, which might take a year or more and would have given Gray time to resign quietly in the interim. Gray's most powerful opponent on the committee, West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, headed Hruska off with parliamentary maneuvering. When it finally became obvious that Gray's confirmation would never get out of committee...
Last week Kleindienst overruled Gray, insisting that the FBI's Watergate files would be open only to the Judiciary Committee Chairman, Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, and the committee's ranking Republican, Nebraska's Roman Hruska. When Kleindienst ordered Gray not to answer any more questions about Watergate, Gray was forced into the humiliating position of refusing to respond to the Senators. "I respectfully decline to answer that question," he would say, his bass voice sometimes quavering as he sounded uncomfortably like someone taking the Fifth Amendment...
...lineup last week: For Gray?Republicans Marlow Cook, Hiram Fong, Edward Gurney, Roman Hruska, Hugh Scott, Strom Thurmond and Democrat James Eastland. Against Gray?Democrats Birch Bayh, Quentin Burdick, Robert Byrd, Sam Ervin, Philip Hart, Edward Kennedy and John Tunney. Undecided?Republican Charles Mathias and Democrat John McClelland...
...quotas is one of application: numerical goals or targets can all too easily escalate into quotas, and competition among groups for quota allotment could reach dangerously divisive-or absurd-levels. During the debate over the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court, it was Senator Roman Hruska who suggested that since there are so many mediocre Americans, mediocrity deserves representation on the highest bench. That doubtless is the reductlo ad absurdum of the quota argument...