Word: rabaut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Open Rule. The ringleader was Michigan's Democratic Representative Louis Rabaut, a man with a special grudge. As the head of an appropriations subcommittee on public works for the Eastern U.S., Rabaut had seen his recommendations junked by Cannon, who autocratically rewrote the bill...
...Rabaut had plenty of eager help. Cannon had particularly annoyed many another Congressman by refusing to move quickly in providing pay-raise funds for committee staff members and other House employees. This annoyance turned to fury last week when Cannon wrote into the catchall supplemental appropriations bill a sentence giving immediate pay raises to some of his own committee staffers-but to no others...
...Concede." On the House floor Louis Rabaut was waiting. Against nearly every clause of the supplemental appropriations bill Rabaut raised a point of order. But Clarence Cannon, who has a notoriously low boiling point (he has been in fistfights with other Congressmen time and again), remained cool. "I concede the point of order," he said repeatedly. His reason: Cannon figured that he could show up the Rules Committee's petty vengeance by letting it result in the death of badly needed appropriations. With Rabaut objecting and Cannon agreeing, out went money for agricultural conservation. Out went funds...
...words "one nation," and Congress will probably make the new wording law during the present session. The old lilt of 1892 was no longer, but the boys and girls who repeat the pledge each morning will be reminded-says the revision's sponsor, Michigan Democrat Louis C. Rabaut-that "democratic . . . institutions presuppose a Supreme Being...
...bill to insert the words "under God" in the U.S. pledge of allegiance to the flag was introduced in the House of Representatives last week by Democratic Congressman Louis C. Rabaut of Michigan. Congressman Rabaut's amended pledge would read: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." "Our country was born under God," said Rabaut, "and only [under God] will it live as a citadel of freedom...