Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lyndon Johnson announced his "wholehearted support." Then ponderous Bill Knowland spoke up. He favored extension for only three years, not five, he proclaimed, adding that he might oppose other features of the House bill too. Rumbled the New York Times: "The so-called minority leader and spokesman for the Republican Party in the Senate is once again demonstrating how ridiculous it is that he holds that august post in the party's hierarchy...
Heavy Footfall. Ike's belated blast came as a virtual order to amend, and last week, as the House armed itself for debate, House Republican Leader Martin dutifully carried out the orders with the reluctant help of Illinois' Les Arends. ranking Republican member of Vinson's committee. Joe Martin took one more step: he called a G.O.P. caucus and laid out the party line, reported afterward that 95% of the Republicans would go along with the amendments...
Except for growling by Arizona's labor-baiting Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, an almost millennial peace marked the early days of the Kennedy-Ives labor-reform bill. After the Senate Labor Committee voted it out a fortnight ago by a bipartisan margin of 12 to Goldwater, nobody in Washington took up Goldwater's cry that the bill was "milk toast." Labor chieftains kept a discreet silence-understandably, since Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy had consulted A.F.L.-C.I.O. brass while he was drafting the bill...
Fighting back, Kennedy called a joint press conference with New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives, labeled Mitchell's outburst "completely inaccurate and irresponsible." With war declared, other Republicans charged in. armed to the teeth with amendments. On the Senate floor, a bill that had seemed to be headed for a quiet passage ran into the noisiest partisan brawl of the session...
Whatever the political value of the Republican offensive, it at least resulted in a stronger bill. With help from liberal Republicans, the united Democrats easily fought off most of the Republican amendments, but Kennedy accepted without a struggle important changes that: ¶Empowered the Secretary of Labor to subpoena union officials and records during investigations...