Word: quorum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assorted amendments (24 in all) that it was laughingly labeled "the Christmas tree bill." Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore opposed one amendment that would allow taxpayers to allocate $1 or $2 of their taxes to a Government-operated presidential campaign fund. He threatened to call for a quorum count of the Senate, in the knowledge that it was impossible to find anything like the 51 members needed for a formal vote on anything-including adjournment...
Calling Brisbane. Senate Leader Mansfield finally managed to summon back enough campaigning Senators (many of them aboard Air Force planes) on Saturday to assure a quorum. The bill flipped through by a 31-22 vote. By late afternoon, Mansfield and Acting House Majority Leader Hale Boggs had made their traditional adjournment calls to the President-in Brisbane, Australia, waking him from a sound sleep. Said the President to Boggs, "Congress has done an outstanding job." Replied Boggs: "Go back to sleep, Mr. President...
...year. It is this provision that prompted Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to oppose the law as "unconstitutional" and refuse to put his enormous prestige behind the measure. When the Democratic leadership tried to bring the bill to the floor, it took two days even to muster a quorum...
Hitting North. So incensed was Majority Leader Mike Mansfield by his colleagues' purposeful absenteeism that he threatened to have the sergeant at arms arrest recalcitrant Senators and dragoon them onto the floor. After this warning, a quorum finally materialized, and the bill was accepted for debate. However, having reluctantly answered the quorum call, most Senators, Republican and Democratic alike, quickly disappeared again. Since a recess can be demanded whenever 51 members can not be rounded up for a roll call, and since 51 Senators could rarely be rounded up last week, Southerners primed for filibuster were able to save...
...attend the services of Louis Himmelfarb, dying unassimilated of cancer in a Catholic hospital. The old Jew scandalizes their skeptical liberalism by insisting on removal to the bathroom of a crucifix that hangs on the wall. Later, a man who had refused to make one of the minyan (sacramental quorum) jeeringly sells his "chance in the world-to-come" for a nickel. But Himmelfarb's stubborn faith has confounded him, and now, it seems, he would like his nickel back. It is a nice story, and Fiedler, who is on the editorial board of Ramparts, the San Francisco Catholic...