Word: membered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Appropriations Committee. Homely (to an opponent who accused him of being two-faced, Cannon once replied: "My God, if I had another face don't you think I'd use it?"), hunched (5 ft. 7 in., 142 Ibs.) Clarence Cannon is perhaps the House's most unpopular member, has had fist fights with at least three colleagues; Tennessee's equally terrible-tempered Senator, the late Kenneth McKellar, once threatened to gavel Cannon's head during a conference committee hearing. But he is also the House's hardest-working member (roughly, from 10 a.m. to midnight seven days a week...
...career of every Congressman as they are to the efficient operation of House machinery. Through Mills, Rayburn can see to it that a promising youngster gets a good committee. If he kicks loose from the party traces too often, a Gentleman from Iowa, say, may find himself a member of the Merchant Marine & Fisheries Committee ("I don't mind them voting against the party sometimes," says Rayburn, "but I don't like it to be chronic...
...each playing by the House rules, seem to balance each other. In 1950, when Appropriations Committee Chairman Cannon pushed his pet "one-package" appropriations bill (all main appropriations in one lump sum so the world could see the awful enormity of it all) through the House, an irate member complained bitterly to Rayburn. Mister Sam only shook his head. "I can't do a thing with Cannon," he said. "He's the most powerful man in the House." Yet the very next year, Chairman Cannon could not even get his one-package bill reported out of his own committee. Muttered...
Chairman of a 50-member committee, largest in congressional history, Clarence Cannon works almost around the clock at the job -as he sees it -of saving the U.S. from bankruptcy. He darts back and forth among his 14 subcommittees, bent forward, as one Capitol staffer puts it. at a 45° angle; if he tilts to 50°, the whole Hill knows that Clarence Cannon is on a rampage. He judges his subcommittee chairmen by the amount by which they can cut budget requests. Last year his star pupil was Louisiana's Otto Passman, who applied a $872 million meat...
...Rayburn dislikes the name, which was given to the sessions by Texas' John Nance Garner, who, as a House member, used to signal Speaker Nicholas Longworth each afternoon that it was time to "strike a blow for liberty." Explained Garner: "You know, you get a couple of drinks in a young Congressman, and then you know what he can do. We pay the tuition by supplying the liquor...