Word: voting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...years, a meeting that will last until just before Christmas or, in Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott's wry prophecy, until "we reach the end of our mutual patience with each other." Before the week was out, considerable attrition of that patience had already taken place. In a vote that crossed party lines and had an indecipherable mixture of political and philosophical motives, the Senate Finance Committee voted 10 to 6 to reject President Nixon's Family Assistance Plan. The proposal, which would change the underlying philosophy of public assistance and is the Administration's most innovative...
...central figure in the committee vote was Senator Fred Harris of Oklahoma, a very dark-horse Democratic aspirant for a 1972 presidential nomination. Harris, after steadfastly supporting the measure for months, voted against it. A Health, Education and Welfare Department official saw pure politics in Harris' switch, calling him that "goddamned bastard" who "just couldn't stand the idea of Richard Nixon getting credit for this bill." Liberal Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the White House Counsellor who sold the President on the legislation, was even more bitter about Harris' role. He said: "Two long years, only...
Despite his respect for Stalin's achievements, Khrushchev says that if he were alive today, "I would vote that he should be brought to trial and punished for his crimes." Noting that some steps have been taken to rehabilitate Stalin's reputation as a war hero, Khrushchev declares angrily: "And now they're starting to cover up [again] for the man guilty of all those murders...
...described them." On other issues, his approval is reluctant. "We wish Carswell towered, and he doesn't," he sighed. "But he is the President's choice, and if I were a Republican on the floor instead of a Whig in the gallery, I would, a little sadly, vote 'Aye.' " Kilpatrick calls himself a Whig instead of a Republican because "no newsman should be identified with a party so I'm a Whig. It provides an escape from embarrassing situations...
Joseph Maynard, whose vote would break the tie, was again absent...