Legislative Vote Quotes
The threat was delivered to Mark Sanford a conservative Congressman from Southg Carolina, Sanford had stated that he would vote against Trump's plan for a replacement to Obamacare. He paid no attention to the threat and the intent of intimidating other Republican members of the House of Representatives failed, There were so many Republican defectors who would not vote for the bill that House Speaker Ryan, withdrew the bill at the last minute has the majority Republicans had so many defectors that the Obama Care replacement coult not possibly pass. This was a great blow to Presieent Trump and not President in history had been thwarted so early in his administration on a major bill. Worse Trump's own party contolled the majority and the entire party had run their campaingns with the "promise" to repeal ObabaCare. However when they tried to do it, they cound it was not so easy and even most of the conservatives proferred ObamaCare to the propsed legislation that the Speaker or the House and the Presidenet were advocating.
Democratic Speaker of the Oklahoma House Jim Barker was so heavy-handed that his own party members combined to unseat him:
Senator Estes Kefauver was one of the few Senators who went against the tide of the times and voted against the McCarran Act, a.k.a. The Internal Security Act. Humphrey had voted for it:
For the average person it was virtually impossible to obtain a divorce in Alabama in that they needed both houses of the legislature to approve it by super majorities. Essentially, the religious forces of the state outlawed divorce but left an opening for the rich and powerful.
