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...best ways to stir up a Congressman is to reject or to cut the appropriations he wants. In this session of Congress no one has refused and cut more than crusty old (76) Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Last week the House cut back at Missourian Cannon...
...Open Rule. The ringleader was Michigan's Democratic Representative Louis Rabaut, a man with a special grudge. As the head of an appropriations subcommittee on public works for the Eastern U.S., Rabaut had seen his recommendations junked by Cannon, who autocratically rewrote the bill...
...Rabaut had plenty of eager help. Cannon had particularly annoyed many another Congressman by refusing to move quickly in providing pay-raise funds for committee staff members and other House employees. This annoyance turned to fury last week when Cannon wrote into the catchall supplemental appropriations bill a sentence giving immediate pay raises to some of his own committee staffers-but to no others...
...nearly every appropriations bill goes against some House prohibition, e.g., appropriations bills cannot contain substantive legislation, it has long been the custom for the Rules Committee to set terms under which points of order are waived during floor action. But not this time: the Rules Committee coldly sent Clarence Cannon's bill to the House under a wide-open rule, placing it at the mercy of every point of order that might be raised...
...Concede." On the House floor Louis Rabaut was waiting. Against nearly every clause of the supplemental appropriations bill Rabaut raised a point of order. But Clarence Cannon, who has a notoriously low boiling point (he has been in fistfights with other Congressmen time and again), remained cool. "I concede the point of order," he said repeatedly. His reason: Cannon figured that he could show up the Rules Committee's petty vengeance by letting it result in the death of badly needed appropriations. With Rabaut objecting and Cannon agreeing, out went money for agricultural conservation. Out went funds...