Word: halleck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overflow crowd of reporters, photographers and Congressmen jammed the committee room for the crucial hearing before the Rules Committee. The session was delayed for 47 minutes while Martin, Majority Leader Charles Halleck and Rules Committee Chairman Leo Allen talked to G.O.P. committee members in Allen's private office, trying to nail down a majority vote. Tennessee's Carroll
...Unlawful Bandit." Charlie Halleck was the first of 13 witnesses. Said he: "We are 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...
...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...
...agents had reported that the Rules Committee recommendation could carry by a 30-vote margin, and he had just used this leverage to good effect on both Democrats and Republicans on Dan Reed's Ways & Means Committee. After a long quorum call, Martin gave the floor to Charlie Halleck for a surprising announcement: the G.O.P. leadership had decided not to ask for a vote on the Rules Committee's EPT report. He was convinced, said Halleck gravely, that the bill would be "handled in the normal manner by the Ways & Means Committee." His last words were drowned...
...time Joe Martin called his meeting, he knew that Dan Reed was weakening. Both Martin and G.O.P. Majority Leader Charlie Halleck poured a generous pitcher of political syrup. There had been a lot of talk about undercutting his old buddy, Dan Reed, said Joe, and everybody surely knew that was just talk. He respected Dan's position, and wanted to talk to all the committee's Republicans on the President's proposals. He made it clear that the Republican leadership was ready to go down the line for the President...