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Unfortunately, the budget balancing act was accomplished only through two highly questionable maneuvers. First, to hold down spending, the House budget resolution directed 16 congressional committees to trim a total of $9 billion from Government programs. The chairmen of the committees opposed the move, arguing that it infringed on their traditional authority. Said Interior Committee Chair man Morris Udall of Arizona: "This is a grab for power...
Both the outgoing and incoming chairmen of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees agreed with Wolfman's assessment...
...Patterson's plans soon ran into powerful opposition from the two rival committee chairmen who had sponsored the two rival energy plans. One was Arizona's lanky Mo Udall, chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. A dedicated conservationist, he has fought for safeguards to protect the environment. The other was Michigan's short-tempered John Dingell, chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. He has strongly favored sweeping away state and federal regulations on energy matters...
Though the two chairmen disagreed on energy policy, both agreed that no new committee should take command of their battlefield. Udall was afraid the new committee would gain control of nuclear safety standards, a responsibility of his subcommittee. Dingell had more reason to worry: his subcommittee was going to be incorporated whole into the new body...
...late. Dingell and Udall had zealously enlisted the support of leading Congressmen for the toothless Bingham substitute. One argument with powerful appeal to other committee chairmen: if the House can take away our powers today, it can take away yours tomorrow. When the measure came to the House floor last week, New Hampshire Republican James Cleveland decried the arrangements worked out by the old-line chairmen: "They sound to me as if they were agreements between feudal baronies drawn up away from the public eye ... Who are the parties to these treaties? What fiefdoms are they floating around...