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Only a day earlier, conservatives from both sides of the Senate floor helped strangle an effort to strengthen the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Led by Sens. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) and Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), the conservatives survived a cloture vote needed to end their filibuster, and...
The added session, which may end this week after Congress approves funds for government operations through the end of January, has not completely lacked examples of conservative in-fighting. Sens. Robert Dole, (R-Ks.) and James A. McClure (R-Id.), for example, have criticized the president-elect on his plans...
Notable victims of the GOP on-slaught included the most venerable giants of the liberal old guard: Sens. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), George S. McGovern (D-S.D.), Frank Church (D-Idaho), and Reps. Al Ullman (D-Ore.) and John Brademas (D-Ind.).
Not only had the GOP ousted the bulk of the Senate's liberal old guard--headed by the likes of Sens. George S. McGovern (D-S.D.), Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), and Frank Church (D-Idaho)--but it had also gained a majority in the house (53-47) for the...
In other important contests, Sen. Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.), head of the Senate Agriculture Committee, overcame accusations of corruption and an official Senate "denouncement" to defeat opponent Mack Mattingly, while incumbent Sens. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), Robert Dole (R-Ka,) and Paul Laxalt (R-Nev...