Word: republicanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though the Administration carried the day, the warning was sounded. The military, henceforth, would not be able to breeze through its requests for appropriations question-free. The lengthy debate that came to an end in the vote last week bore this out. "Just remember," said Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, "this is a bill that used to slip through the Senate in hours, with no real opposition. This year it took two months...
Senate Democrats have long been accustomed to the gentlemanly brawling between their factions of Southern conservatives and urban liberals. It is less often that Senate Republicans, so long a minority, have displayed their divisions. Yet the Senate G.O.P. now includes a band of moderates and liberals increasingly disposed to cross party lines to vote with their ideological counterparts on such issues as ABM and civil rights. Last week, as the 43 Republican Senators prepared to select Everett Dirksen's successor as minority leader, the factional lines of stress became clear...
...particular, the report of 22 Republican Congressmen who made an unpublicized tour of campuses, including Harvard, last spring seems to have swung members of their party over to join the core of Liberal Democrats who have opposed the bills all along...
...Republican support came in especially handy two weeks ago, when House Minority Leader Gerald Ford (R-III.) played a major part in heading off an attempt to attach an anti-riot amendment to the bill giving lenders an "incentive allowance" for making loans to college students. Ford induced most Republicans to vote for suspending the rules on the bill, thus barring any amendments...
THERE HAD been hints in 1965 and 1966 in the state and senatorial elections of the new vote from Northern Virginia and the Negroes and blacks. A moderate-then called a liberal-William Spong upset the Byrd Organization man for a Senate seat in 1966; a Republican had come close to winning the 1965 gubernatorial election. But though the Byrds looked in trouble going into 1969 (Virginia state elections are held the year following Presidential elections), all the political observers thought they would make a good battle...