Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate moved steadily toward adjournment, whooping through 134 bills (nearly all of them minor) in one two-hour period. The Senate's big items concerned two politically loaded pieces of legislation. On one, the proposal for a federal dam in Hell's Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border, the Democratic leadership took a whipping from the Administration. On the other, social-security expansion, the Democrats passed an Administration-opposed bill that will be useful this fall. In all, the tortoise was doing nicely...
...single, multipurpose, $308 million federal dam in Hell's Canyon. Main reason for the all-out Democratic effort: egged on by National Chairman Paul Butler, the Senate Democrats hoped to pass the bill, draw an Eisenhower veto that would, in the power-conscious Northwest, help the campaigns of Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse and Washington's Senator Warren Magnuson...
...Oregon (16): All for Primary Winner Stevenson...
Cooper was at least the third candidate personally recruited this year by President Eisenhower in an effort to people the Congress with his kind of Republicans (others: Oregon's Douglas McKay, Washington's Arthur Langlie). Among both politicians and pundits, Cooper's decision was widely accepted as a sign that Ike himself is planning to run again...
...Administration natural-resources "giveaway" in the fall campaigns. The committee, following a similar move by its Senate sister, voted 15-13 to clear for House action a bill to build a $600 million federal high dam in Hell's Canyon on the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon. The Idaho Power Co., which the Federal Power Commission licensed last August to build three small dams in the area for an estimated $250 million, has already begun large-scale construction...