[katana]

If Senate Republicans had any b***s they'd counter propose changing the name of the building to McKinley Dirksen and rename the office building that currently bears his name to the Mansfield Building (to honor Mike Mansfield, a friend and colleague, of his, WWII USMC vteran, and honorable Senate Democrat Majority Leader of the same generation). Not only did Dirksen (whose deep voice is unforgettable to anyone who followed politics in the sixties) help write the 1964 Civil Rights Act and bust the four and a half day Democrat filibuster against it led by Russell, but as far as I know he never crashed any Navy property, while in uniform commit any acts of collaboration with a declared enemy of the United States, or be a proven co-conspirator in any major financial fraud scandals.

I know, key word is "if".

[Fiji Hill]

Sen. Dirksen also had a chart hit that reached #29 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Gallant Men--Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen (1966)

[DrDavid]

If Senate Republicans had any b***s they'd counter propose changing the name of the building to McKinley Dirksen..

The Senate Republicans could also propose that the building be names after five senators—Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-MI), or the Charles Keating Jr. Federal Home Loan Bank Building.

<s>I can't imagine why this was a Republican scandal.<\s>