Word: ept
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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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...
When Halleck was finished, Dan Reed rose to reply. His face flamed anger, his bony jaw jutted, Chairman Allen offered him a chair, but Reed snapped: "I'm still able to stand." He stood, straight as an oak, while he boiled over. "This [rules] committee has no authority . . . EPT is nothing but an unlawful bandit cutting the throats of industry . . . This [hearing] may be the destruction of representative government. If that's true, this is no place for me." Reed's voice rose to a passionate shout. "What have I done in my 35 years that...
...Virginia's Howard Smith, the senior Democrat on the Rules Committee, leaned over to Allen. "Leo," Smith whispered, "you got the votes?" Leo nodded. Shortly afterward Allen cleared the room for the vote. On a voice vote (7-4), the Rules Committee backed Joe Martin and started the EPT extension on its way to the House. Holdout Carroll Reece voted with the majority...
...would remember only that Democrats had helped to kill a tax popular with the party's left wing. To make the point, Martin proudly showed off a wire of support from a strange bedfellow-the C.I.O.'s legislative counsel. Leo Allen coyly reminded Democrats that expiration of EPT "would be giving Gen eral Motors $122 million-and we can't do that...