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FOR THE SENATE:
FOR THE HOUSE
Everett M. Dirksen
THE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP
OF REPRESENTATIVES:
of Illinois
OF THE CONGRESS
Gerald R. Ford
Thomas H. Kuchel
of Michigan
of California
Leslie C. Arends
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
of Illinois
of lowa
Press Release
Melvin R. Laird
Leverett Saltonstall
of Wisconsin
of Massachusetts
John J. Rhodes
Thruston B. Morton
Issued following a
of Arizona
of Kentucky
Leadership Meeting
H. Allen Smith
of California
PRESIDING:
September 22, 1966
Bob Wilson
of California
The National Chairman
Charles E. Goodell
Ray C. Bliss
of New York
STATEMENT BY REPRESENTATIVE FORD:
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mr. President, our Question-of-the-Week:
Can We Afford Your Automatic-Democratic Congress?
This may be, in some respects, a push-button world. It may be,
in some respects, a computer civilization. It may be, here and there,
that the rubber stamp has its proper place and function. But, the
push-button, the computer and the rubber stamp wielded in the White
House have not yet won the approval of the American people where their
Representatives and Senators in the Congress are concerned.
Does the Johnson-Humphrey Administration want not only a blank
check but push-button, computerized, rubber stamp voting in the
Senate and in the House? This the American people will no longer
tolerate.
Proof positive of this Administration's push-button psychology
is the voting record of those forty-five freshman Democrats, elected
in 1964 from districts formerly Republican, whose automatic responses
to the wishes of the Johnson-Humphrey Administration are recorded for
all to see.
Item: On reduction of foreign aid (authorization), 1965. This
was defeated by 41 votes. 38 of these were automatic-Democratic
freshman votes.
Item: On foreign aid authorization (recommittal), 1965.
Recommittal failed by 2 votes. 36 of the automatic-Democratic fresh-
men voted against recommittal.
Item: On anti-poverty program expansion (recommittal) . Recom-
mittal was defeated by 49 votes. 39 of these were automatic-
Democratic freshman votes.
Item: On the repeal of 14B -- the right to work. The bill
passed by 18 votes. 41 votes for it were automatic-Democratic
freshman votes.
Room S-124 U.S. Capitol-(202) 225-3700
Consultant to the Leadership-John B. Fisher
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