Word: ept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election in his upstate New York district since 1918, he has never asked a voter to vote for him personally-only for the Republican party. His support comes principally from the rural voters in his district, and yet he was refusing as a matter of principle to extend EPT because he thought EPT damaging to business. Moreover, Reed believed that he was saving the Administration from itself; Treasury Secretary George Humphrey had acknowledged that EPT was a "bad tax," and had defended extension to next January only as a matter of expediency. Reed remembered that a tax cut had stimulated...
...keenly aware that Dan Reed's Ways & Means Committee was the traditionally unchallenged source of all revenue bills. Like all House Speakers, Martin was deeply conscious that his very authority depended on parliamentary precedent and the power of his committee chairmen. He could have ducked the whole EPT issue. But in recent months Joe Martin has discovered a higher loyalty to Dwight Eisenhower, and in that loyalty has developed a sense of leadership which his colleagues had never seen in him before...
Eisenhower pleas to let the committee vote on EPT extension, Martin placed his own prestige on the block for the Eisenhower Administration...
Pivotal Holdout. On Wednesday, he came out of a legislative conference at the White House and promised to use "every possible means" to get a vote on EPT. Next day Martin prompted a meeting of the House Rules Committee. His drastic strategem was this: ignore Ways & Means prerogatives on revenue bills, let the Rules Committee consider a new EPT bill (one had just been conveniently dropped into the House hopper by Connecticut's Antoni Sadlak), and take the new bill directly to the floor for a vote. The course was risky, and failure would impair Joe Martin...
...going to carry out what is obviously the will of the members of both sides of the House. We are faced with the necessity of asking for this rule." Ten Republicans on Dan Reed's committee had guaranteed, said Halleck, that they would vote out an EPT bill, if they could only get Reed to call a meeting. But with Reed blocking the road, there was nothing to do but act through the Rules Committee. Halleck established beyond much doubt that the Rules Committee had the right to act, wound up half-apologetically: "In my 19 years in Congress...