Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halleck, at home with fearful legislative odds, closed the ranks of his dogged Republican minority (153 out of 437) to save the President's perfect veto record last week by one cliffhanging vote. And his victory was bitter medicine indeed to House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had vowed to "lick 'em on this...
Economy Whisper. For six days Halleck worked to whip his forces into line. Absentees were summoned to Washington from as far away as Warsaw and Moscow (only authorized absentee: Washington's golfing, honeymooning Republican Jack Westland). For 35 Republicans who were doubtful, or definitely in favor of overriding, Halleck and G.O.P. Whip Les Arends had quiet warning ("Either you go along with the President, or you don't") and promises from Interior Secretary Fred Seaton to revive eight politically strategic projects in next year's budget. Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, ever the foe of spending, whispered that...
...Three dozen Senators (26 Democrats, 10 Republicans ) joined New York Republican Jacob Javits in sponsoring a resolution declaring it "the sense of the Congress" that the U.S. Government should encourage "in every appropriate way" an American Bar Association plan for "a series of conferences of lawyers from many nations with a view to the strengthening of the rule of law among nations...
Grand Design. Even Wilbur Mills's friends admit that he is partly to blame for his committee's ineffectuality this year. By overcautiously trying to win Republican agreement before bringing proposals to a committee vote, he has lost Democratic backing. In operating too much on his own, he has failed to collect the committee's fragmented Democratic majority into a united front. By failing to canvass committee members with sufficient care, he has frequently misjudged how they would vote...
...when the Republican Eisenhower Administration took over after 20 years of Democratic rule, Democrats held 80% of all federal judgeships. That figure has since been whittled down to about 50%, and the Democratic Senate, fearing more attrition, has pigeonholed many Eisenhower judicial nominations (25 lay unconfirmed last week), and has refused for three years to act on an urgent Administration bill to create 45 new judges' jobs in areas where docket backlogs delay decisions by as much as 3½ years...