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Minimum High Regard. As a committee and cloakroom negotiator, Wilbur Mills has few House peers. But when all the behind-the-scenes work has been done, it remains the basic job of the House to make laws -and that can only be done on the floor, where Majority Leader John McCormack holds forth, directing the tides of legislative battle...
...floor leader must always know how the House is leaning on the issues that come before it. To help him, McCormack can always call on the Democratic whip, Oklahoma's Carl Albert, who, with his 15 assistants, can come up with a quick nose count in 24 hours, a firm figure within a week. (In 1955 the whip count indicated reciprocal trade would win by a single vote on the key roll call; the actual count...
...Count. But it is not all that easy. Under the House system as it has evolved over the decades, the floor leader, the Speaker or anyone else must nearly always go through the Rules Committee to get legislation to the floor. The Rules Committee serves as an absolutely necessary check on the flood of bills introduced each session by the members of the House (by last weekend they had introduced 3,443 so far this session). But beyond that, notions differ. "Some think we are just a traffic cop," says Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith. "Others feel that we have...
Last week the buckram-bound volume that contains the U.S. budget went from the White House to Capitol Hill. Wrapped up in that budget were all the plans and programs of the U.S. for the next fiscal year. Speaker Sam Rayburn, Majority Leader John McCormack, Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith, Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills would all help bring those programs to life. The dew of innocence was still in the eye of the 86th Congress, the fires of hope in its breast. New "approaches" hung high like...
...spring. The potent Investigating Committee of Free Jurists, whose network of spies in East Germany helps make life miserable for the Red rulers of that unhappy state, suffered a series of body blows: one of its top officials was exposed by the East Germans as a former Nazi youth leader; another was captured by the Reds when he went for a sail alone on the Wannsee; a third confessed he had been working for the Reds from the moment he joined the Jurists...