Word: talkathon
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Irked not only by the civil rights talkathon but also by delaying action in congressional committees on eight major appropriations bills, Senators eager to return home for campaigning grew increasingly restive. Lyndon Johnson had, after all, predicted last year that the session would end before July. By week's end, however, the log jam began to ease as budget requests for the District of Columbia and for new military construction passed the House and another for public works emerged from a House committee...
...help us if we impair it, if we tarnish it, if we sully it, if we transmit it to the next generation in impaired form." Mansfield countered with harsh words. He decried "the resentments, the irritations, the vendettas and the whatevers against organized labor" that had prompted the talkathon. Noting the Senate's historic reluctance to restrict debate, Mansfield reasoned: "The Senate will not gag itself by voting to adopt cloture. On the contrary, if the Senate does adopt cloture, it will free itself from the passion and perversity which, since the end of the last session, have held...
...first, which was waged during the waning days of last year's congressional session, Dirksen's aim was to block Administration attempts to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to outlaw union membership as a condition of employment. The talkathon began when Majority Leader Mike Mansfield moved that the Senate take up the repeal bill; Dirksen got the floor -and held on for dear life...
After a sharp fight, the lower house passed the amendment by 74 votes to 23. However, in the state senate Wallace's bill bogged down in a talkathon organized by supporters of former Governor John Patterson, the leading candidate to succeed Wallace next year. When they attempted to invoke cloture, Wallace's men were shocked to find that they could rally only 18 votes, six short of the two-thirds majority needed to silence the rebels...
...woman composer in her mid-20s and her boy friend, a young couple married only a year, a marriage counselor, a middle-aged couple, and two psychiatrists. All had been chosen because, although they had neurotic problems, they were not likely to flip under the rigors of their therapeutic talkathon...