Word: mister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaker Sam Rayburn has long opposed any additional seats, feeling that the House is big enough, would become cumbersome and unmanageable if it got any bigger. But with pressure from many an old friend who might lose a seat, Mister Sam is wavering. He asked Oklahoma's Carl Albert, the Democratic whip, to make a quiet investigation and some recommendations. Then Rayburn let it be known that for the time being he would take a neutralist position. He still has misgivings, believes that the Chelf bill might open the door to further growing pains. "First thing you know...
...victory that Mister Sam could rightly store in his treasure chest of memories, but it was a dark victory indeed. Essentially it was a fight of Democrats with Democrats, and it marked a decisive swing of power from the entrenched Southern Democratic conservatives to the urban liberal forces that have grown increasingly frustrated over Southern seniority. But the close vote reddened the sore of the split and emphasized the powerful resources of the conservatives even under intense pressure. The cold realists in John Kennedy's White House knew that the fight would have to be refought on every major...
...call was almost cruelly suspenseful. Though both camps had counted the votes in advance with exquisite care. Congressmen hovered tensely over tally sheets. In the galleries, as the roll call seesawed toward an end. each new no drew a low, hissing gasp of disappointment. The galleries were clearly on Mister Sam's side...
...Mister Sam encountered only moderate difficulties with Rules during 1959, because the Democratic liberals in Congress held back most of their planned legislation until 1960, so as to get the election-year benefits. When 1960 came around, the Democratic housing bill died in the Rules Committee, and so did a bill to ease restrictions on picketing of construction sites. Kennedy Democrats hoped to pass a politically profitable batch of welfare legislation at the post-convention session of Congress, but Judge Smith's Rules Committee helped Charlie Halleck's Republicans turn the postscript into a fiasco that spoiled...
...member plan, a less drastic break with House traditions and Southern feelings. His mind once made up on committee packing, he announced a "binding" Democratic caucus, a rare device by which a two-thirds vote can bind all members of the party to vote for a particular proposal. Again Mister Sam wavered, decided that a binding caucus would injure Southern feelings too deeply, and that he could win without it anyway...