Word: monroney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congressional opposition, Brannan was now willing to whittle his plan down to a three-product trial run (eggs, potatoes, shorn wool) and come back for the rest in two years. But even that was too much for the House. "I am afraid of the plan," shouted Fair Dealer Mike Monroney of Oklahoma. "If we can accomplish this trick of high producers' prices and low consumers' prices without the outpouring of billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury, then we have discovered something as great as . . . perpetual motion...
...word came from Martin's office. Congress would work all night until it got a housing and a farm bill, then adjourn. Tired conferees met for yet another session. At 2:45 a.m. the housing compromise was ready. It wasn't much. Oklahoma's Mike Monroney called it "a teeny, weeny housing bill." It provided only for a government secondary market for G.I. mortgages, authorized veterans cooperative apartments. Wolcott...
Also on the Forum's list were newspapermen Westbrook Pagler, Fulton Lewis Jr., and Raymond Heale; former Senator Philip LaFollette and Representative Mike Monroney, co-authors of the Congressional reorganization bill; and several members of the University faculty, but no one was willing to appear before a Forum audience...
...80th would. Congress had had no help from President Truman, who, when the 80th had convened, had sat back with the air of a man who has just passed a damp baby to someone else. Congress had had to wrestle with a full-scale reorganization (under the La Follette-Monroney Reorganization Act); changing a lot of old customs took time. All legislation had to be worried over by committees. That also took time...
...Republicans' position was this: they wanted to continue the committee (the old Truman Committee), despite the fact that it was not included in the La Follette-Monroney reorganization act, passed at the last session. The man who would head it would be Maine's Owen Brewster, who is itching to rake back over those years when the Republicans were outside looking in. But authorizing one special committee, Democrats argued, meant opening the door to many "special" committees and violating the spirit of the reorganization act. Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry was already knocking at the door with another...