Word: mccormack
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Dirksen had made his point, nonetheless. Congress is expected to approve pay raises for Agnew and the top congressional leaders. The legislators will hike the salaries of Agnew and House Speaker John McCormack to $62,500 and raise Dirksen and four others to $49,500. Inflation has pushed up the cost of living and entertaining, and the bill is designed to ensure that the nation's leadership cadre will not be forced into penury...
Some recalled the famous statement of Andrew Jackson about an edict by the court of Chief Justice John Marshall: "Mr. Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it." Others, like Speaker John McCormack, who was a defendant in the case before the Supreme Court, felt the situation too serious for excited rhetoric...
...activist, innovative Presidents, Congress grew accustomed to reacting to executive initiatives rather than originating major legislation. During the relatively quiescent Eisenhower years, Sam Rayburn in the House and Lyndon Johnson in the Senate provided strong party leadership, giving the opposition Democrats a measure of cohesion and guidance. Speaker John McCormack and Senate Leader Mike Mansfield offer no comparable direction today. Illinois Democrat Roman Pucinski complains: "The Speaker never intended to be the party leader, and he doesn't seek it. The D S G. [Democratic Study Group, a liberal COalition] has fallen apart. The Southern bloc is without...
House Speaker John McCormack, however, does not want his chamber to vote before the Senate. He is assuming that the Senate will go against Safeguard and would rather have the House in the position of vetoing Senate action than the other way around. The possibility of complete deadlock persists, of course. If that occurs, the Administration could attempt to win a few Senate converts by acquiescing to a modification of Safeguard's prospectus. Any such change-on paper at least-would have the aim of making the program seem more experimental and less of a firm undertaking to build...
AFTERWORDS: NOVELISTS ON THEIR NOVELS, edited by Thomas McCormack. The anxiety, excitement and loneliness of confronting blank sheets of paper, sharply recalled and brightly written by 14 novelists, including Norman Mailer, Truman Capote and Louis Auchincloss...