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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...
...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...
...Charles Halleck...
...major problems Congress will have to buckle down to after it hears him: APPROPRIATIONS. What to do about the budget for fiscal 1954 which Harry Truman will leave behind. Eisenhower is anxious to cut expenditures, and a number of G.O.P. leaders, including House Majority Leader-to-be Charles Halleck of Indiana, have called economy the most important issue facing the new Congress...