Word: monroney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house the Humphreys need. Senator George Smathers has introduced a bill that would make a vice-presidential residence out of Admiral's House, a 14-room mansion just off Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row, now assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations. Another bill, by Democrat Mike Monroney, would create a three-member commission, give it $1,000,000 to buy or build an appropriate house...
...spokesman for the Senate's pro-inflation bloc who early in the Depression vainly waged a campaign to force unlimited currency upon the nation, thereafter remained a cantankerous critic of Administration policies from public power to Marshall aid, was finally defeated in the 1950 primary by Congressman Mike Monroney shortly after being exposed for trading in the cotton commodities market; of pneumonia; in Lawton, Okla...
Like the weather, the ponderous machinery of the U.S. Congress is a subject for lots of talk and little action. The last time that anyone did anything about it was in 1945, when the late Senator Robert M. LaFollette Jr. Progressive from Wisconsin, and Representative Mike Monroney, Oklahoma Democrat, headed a committee that investigated congressional procedures. Out of that investigation came a legislative reorganization act that, among other things, cut the number of standing congressional committees from 81 to 34, and required Capitol Hill lobbyists to register...
Last fall, 20 years later, Monroney, now a Senator, decided that congressional procedures again needed streamlining. Said he: "Our population has grown from 140 million to nearly 190 million; our gross national product from $218 billion to $623 billion; space and atomic-energy issues have now overshadowed the issues such as which towns get new post offices, and world trade and world credit have replaced the old RFC problems. Our machinery to carry the mammoth load of old and new items needs updating, overhauling, modernizing and revising." And last week, Monroney and Indiana's Democratic Representative Ray J. Madden...
...Monroney-Madden committee will hear two more weeks of testimony from Congressmen, later listen to political scientists, businessmen, labor leaders, and anyone else who has ideas about how to streamline Congress. The committee has until the end of next January to report its recommendations...