Word: 86th
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During the 86th Congress, in 1959-60, Virginia's wily old Howard Worth Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee, had made up an unsplittable conservative bloc with the committee's four Republican members plus Mississippi's William Colmer. Because most major bills require positive action by the Rules Committee, the six conservatives were able to use a 6-to-6 deadlock to stall any legislation they disliked. By adding two new Democrats and only one Republican, Sam Rayburn expected to tilt the 6-to-6 standoff to an 8-to-7 majority. So much was at issue...
...Presidents, because a powerful Rules Committee is necessary to the functioning of Congress. With its 437 members,* each armed with his own mandate from voters back home, the House is too unwieldy a body to get its work done without strict control over the flow of legislation. In the 86th Congress, the members introduced a total of 15,506 bills and resolutions, and the Senate passed an additional 957 measures that the House had to act on before they could become law. Under the "general rules" of the House, each member has a right to speak for one hour...
...86th birthday, Sir Winston Churchill, recovering from the fracture of a minor bone in his back from a bed room fall, abruptly announced that he intended to rise phoenixlike and have a party. When Lady Churchill and his doctors vetoed the inspiration, Britain's most eminent citizen took it quite well, spent most of the day in bed accepting personal greetings from friends, children and grandchildren, and shoveling through the blizzard of congratulations that fell upon the threshold of his London town house in Hyde Park Gate. At the family luncheon table, Sir Winston presided over a mighty repast...
...86th Congress passed away whimpering. The short, post-convention summer session ordered by the Democratic leadership to make campaign hay turned into a Democratic fiasco. Bill after bill was either stopped dead or hacked to pieces by a disciplined coalition of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats. Dick Nixon would not have to explain away any awkward presidential vetoes during his campaign, because President Eisenhower had not had to use his veto.* Although on adjourning Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn pointed with customary pride, they could not camouflage the failure...
...meant for Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, but it made a certain amount of sense to his red-eyed, rumpled colleagues, worn down by 14-hour working days as they rushed toward adjournment before the July11 Democratic Convention. The House side was equally hectic. After five leisurely months, the 86th Congress last week launched a frantic drive to pass "must" legislation. Items: ¶The House passed (258-124) a $3.58 billion foreign-aid bill, $590.5 million below Administration requests, but a surprising $200 million above the $3.38 billion package backed by House Speaker Sam Rayburn-thanks to a rare combination...