Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hill. One deceptively quiet afternoon, the Senate was considering that familiar bale of hay, the foreign aid authorization bill. The speechmakers droned away in a nearly deserted chamber. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was off in his own office, conferring with a passel of Democratic Senators about the Administration's tax-revision bill. The only firecracker expected to make any noise in connection with the foreign aid bill was Wisconsin's Democrat William Proxmire's amendment to bar aid (but not shipments of surplus food) to Yugoslavia for one year. Even Proxmire's staffers admitted that they...
...wind up the Perry Como doll and it unwinds. Wind up the Ed Sullivan doll and it just stands there. Wind up the David Merrick doll and it auctions off its mother. No point trying to wind up the Jayne Mansfield doll-it's busted. Wind up the Brigitte Bardot doll, on the other hand, and it drops the towel...
...Handy Chance. Finally Mansfield moved to close off debate-and he took an awful drubbing. Democrats split 30-30, and Republicans voted 23 to 13 against the motion. Thus, far from the two-thirds majority he needed for cloture, Mansfield failed to get even a simple majority...
After his defeat on the cloture motion. Mansfield moved to table the bill, and announced that a vote against tabling would be interpreted as support for the bill itself. The vote against tabling was 64-33, meaning that almost two-thirds of the Senators favored a bill that they were unable or unwilling to bring to a vote. Mansfield warned that the contrast between the overwhelming sentiment for the bill and the failure to get it to a vote would be a powerful argument for tightening up the cloture rule at the beginning of the next session. But the tabling...
...clamp such tight production controls on many farmers that they would be little more than the Government's hired hands. House Democrats now think they have enough votes to pass the bill intact. Over on the Senate side, the Agriculture Committee butchered the bill, but Majority Leader Mike Mansfield believes that the Democrats can restore most of the controls before final passage. Because of McSween's vote, said a grateful Secretary Freeman, the farm bill had cleared what "perhaps was its most difficult hurdle...