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...speech on the floor Pucinski said "it is cruel and illogical to subject more than 10 million Americans to the shadow of the draft for seven and a half years," when only about 38,000 a year are drafted...
...amendment was offered by Rep. Roman Pucinski (D-Ill.), and was defeated by a voice vote after Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, spoke against the measure...
Vinson pointed out that Pucinski had not offered the amendment when the Selective Service Bill was being studied by his committee...
...disappointed, but hardly surprised," Pucinski said last night. "One very valuable result of the day's debate was that Vinson admitted that the President could alter the draft age without the consent of Congress. I now plan to see if I can get the White House to take some action in this area...
...went quietly behind his back, lined up enough votes to pass the bill over the chairman's objection; Passman eventually voted for the appropriation himself, rather than have it known he could not control his committee. Again, during the aid-to-education debate, Chicago's Representative Roman Pucinski threatened to kill the public school measure by tagging onto it a parochial school amendment. O'Brien appealed to Chicago Boss Dick Daley, who immediately telephoned Pucinski: "Who sent you there, me or the bishop?" he growled. "And who's going to keep you there...