Word: monroney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good faith of the House was promptly tested and proved. Speaker Martin crushed an attempt by one of his own party, New York's professorial W. Sterling Cole, to upset the streamlined rules provided in the La Follette-Monroney Reorganization Act. It was a good omen. The new rules stand; House committees are cut from...
There was the question of the La Follette-Monroney reorganization bill, passed by the 79th Congress, which reduced the old hodgepodge of 81 Congressional committees to 15 in the Senate, 19 in the House. The 80th Congress, however, was not bound to go through with this streamlining. Many would prefer the old committee system, because there were more chairmanships to go around. A fight was due over that...
Landslide? In the privacy of the voting booth, contemplating 14 years of Democratic rule, voters may dump many another Democrat overboard. Then such candidates for re-election as radical Hugh De Lacey, of Washington, able Mike Monroney, of Oklahoma, gracious, conscientious Emily Taft Douglas, of Illinois, handsome Helen Gahagan Douglas, of California - all of whom are hotly engaged - will also disappear. Not only would there then be no question of Republicans organizing the House; the Republicans would have solid, unassailable control...
...further complications to November's balloting. The federal nature of our government causes party ideology to vary from state to state. In some elections a progressive Republican rates the nod over an unsavory Democratic candidate. But Republicans of the Stassen-Dirksen variety are far fewer than Democrats of the Monroney-Pepper-Mead mold. And, in the Congressional races at least, a mediocre Democrat is preferable to a mediocre Republican. A.G.O.P. majority in either house of the 80th Congress will mean two years of confusion and stalemate between the President and his legislature...
...tired House, Oklahoma's young, progressive A. S. Mike Monroney, Democrat, teamed with Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen to push the bill which had been fought through the Senate by Wisconsin's Robert La Follette Jr. In last week's maneuvers they lost the provisions for legislative policy committees for both minority and majority parties, and for an executive-legislative council. The reason: Speaker Sam Rayburn wanted to keep the four-man Democratic policy committee which meets with the President every Monday morning...