Word: mansfield
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...demands stipulated in the Constitution. Last week, in a chamber filled with the grating emotions and cross purposes of determined men, the legislative machinery flew apart. "The Senate has gone out of control," scoffed a Republican leader from the more orderly House of Representatives. Conceded Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield: "We are having filibusters-and filibusters on filibusters, and filibusters within filibusters...
...voted this month to deny the President any more funds to develop a supersonic transport, while the House had authorized the $290 million that the President had requested. A House-Senate conference committee tried to compromise the issue by granting $210 million for the plane. The Senate's Mansfield called this "a capitulation of the Senate position," while other SST critics more bluntly termed it a "betrayal" and "a rape of the will of the Senate." Vowed one: "We're not going to lay over for the old men in the conference committees, who are in league with...
...three-day week, and by the fact that Senators sometimes take the floor for windy speeches designed only for home consumption while national business has to wait. Plotting during dinners, the four honed their proposals. They then consulted their senatorial elders, mainly the two party leaders, Democrat Mike Mansfield and Republican Hugh Scott. "We didn't want them to think that this was a revolt by upstart freshmen," explained Schweiker. Mansfield and Scott encouraged them to go ahead...
...committee vote was 8-4 in favor of the aid package that authorized funds for Cambodia, South Korea, and Vietnam. Voting against the proposal were committee chairman J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark.). Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), and Albert Gore (D-Tenn...
...presence on the Continent and let Europe meet its own conventional defense needs. Opponents of this view argue that a U.S. withdrawal would set in motion the "Finlandization" of the Continent, prompting its countries to work out accommodations with Moscow from positions of weakness. Nonetheless, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's resolution calling for a substantial reduction has already been co-sponsored by 50 of his colleagues. He is expected to introduce it some time next year. Even if the Senate approves the resolution, the President will not be bound by it; however, supporters might try to limit defense...