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Through the four years of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations the House has been the more conservative legislative body. This year it passed the Tuck amendment on reapportionment, defeated medicare, and forced Johnson to hold up several bills (mass transit, school and college construction) until deals could be made. When the President got his majority on a bill, the majority was usually small; 44 times in the last four years, according to the National Review, Republican votes have been needed to pass "crucial measures of anti-conservative nature...
...powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Wilbur Mills (D.-Ark.), had openly declared he would use every weapon available to prevent such action. And the full House had given ample testimony to its very conservative stature this session by passing such legislation as the Tuck amendment barring the Supreme Court from any consideration of legislative reapportionment...
Exposed as a spy, and the agent of a California Democratic prankster named Richard Tuck, Miss O'Connor was put off the train in Parkersburg, W. Va., only ten hours after boarding. But however simple-minded her mission might have been, campaign newsmen, on a starvation diet of steaks and oratory, jumped at the chance to report it. In front-page stories around the U.S., they gave the Democrats' girl spy a far better ride than she had got on the Goldwater Special...
...Lyndon Johnson was painfully aware that Kennedy's medicare pledge remained unfulfilled. If for nothing but the record, he had to make one last, desperate try. Last week he did. In the Senate, Administration forces won approval of a social security-financed medicare plan by a nip-and-tuck vote of 49 to 44. But the prognosis for House approval of the Senate's action was poor...
...fiery Rules session, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, Judiciary Committee chairman, sputtered angrily about the treatment he was getting from Smith, but was even more dismayed at the potential effect of Tuck's bill. "If you can take away jurisdiction over reapportionment today," Celler said, "tomorrow you can take away jurisdiction over civil rights, and the next day over antitrust cases." Countered Tuck: "This may be a harsh method, but I know no other way to see the right thing done...