Word: chairmen
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Blaine, then Samuel J. Randall, John G. Carlisle and finally Tom Reed-appointed committee chairmen, dictated legislative priorities, and then determined the fate of their bills by the simple power of whom to recognize on the floor. By 1890, Reed was so contemptuous of the White House that he spurned presidential invitations to discuss his congressional plans. It was Reed who told a colleague in 1892: "I have been 15 years in Congress and I never saw a Speaker's decision overruled, and you will never live to see it either." The apex of House rule was reached under...
SENIORITY. The academic experts generally argued that the seniority system of selecting committee chairmen has been attacked much too broadly as a central evil when in fact it is a minor matter. Henry Hall Wilson, president of the Chicago Board of Trade, even contended that if the seniority system were abolished, the same men would be chosen as leaders. "Why? Because they are abler." Senator Ervin conceded that the system is bad in some respects, "but the only thing that is worse is every alternative that has ever been proposed for it." Such views were challenged by Massachusetts Congressman Robert...
...power to people who are responsible to a limited constituency; Wilbur Mills, one of the most able men in Congress, is not chairman for Little Rock, but for Los Angeles and Long Beach and Prescott, Ariz." Udall has proposed a plan for the majority-party caucus to elect committee chairmen from among the three senior members on each committee, and by secret ballot. In sum, it may well be necessary to drop or at least modify the seniority system in order to encourage more legislators to develop expertise, with the expectation of gaining influence sooner...
...members: Co-Chairmen Lucy Wilson Benson, president, League of Women Voters, and C. Donald Peterson, associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court; Barry Bingham Sr., chairman, the Louisville Courier Journal; Stimson Bullitt, president, King Broadcasting Company (Seattle); Hodding Carter III, editor, the Delta Democrat Times (Greenville, Miss.); Robert Chandler, editor, the Bulletin (Bend, Ore.); Ithiel de Sola Pool, professor of political science, M.I.T.; Hartford N. Gunn Jr., president, Public Broadcasting System; Richard Harwood, assistant managing editor, the Washington Post; Louis Martin, editor, the Chicago Defender; John B. Oakes, editorial page editor, the New York Times; Paul Reardon, associate justice, Massachusetts...
Harvard's ideal of a happy marriage between disciplines crept a little closer to reality this week when it was disclosed that Isabel G. MacCaffrey may join husband Wallace T. MacCaffrey in the ranks of Harvard department chairmen...