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Some 30 years ago Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn of Texas was asked by a fellow Democrat to campaign in Massachusetts against Republican Leader Joe Martin. Snapped Rayburn: "Speak against Joe Martin? Hell, if I lived up there, I'd vote...
...served in Congress for 25 years, gradually rising through the ranks and in the esteem of his Democratic colleagues. Now, bushy-browed Jim Wright of Texas is completing his second term as majority leader, and he yearns to follow in the footsteps of fellow Texan Sam Rayburn by becoming House Speaker when Tip O'Neill retires. Wright, 57, has tended his Fort Worth constituency in ways open only to a veteran Congressman. He claims his district has more defense contracts than any other in the country, including at least $18 billion for construction of 1,388 F-16 fighters...
President Carter learned another lesson in high school civics this week when he discovered that no matter how loud he yells for draft registration, he still needs permission from the guys in the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill...
...Department of Education--an organ without Cabinet-level status. For the next 110 years and more, proposals to establish such a department have burst upon Congress sporadically. From 1908 to 1951, more than 50 pieces of legislation seeking to establish an education department floated through the Russell, Longworth and Rayburn Congressional office buildings; however, none survived beyond the committee stage. Legislation introduced in the 95th Congress met a similar fate. Meanwhile, education has become an orphan child in the constantly expanding bureaucracy-on-the-Potomac, drifting from the Interior Department to the Federal Security Agency and finally coming to rest...
...biggest changes in Congress in recent years is that it is no longer dominated by a few pro-oil titans from petroleum states. The industry still has powerful legislative pals, notably Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. But legendary figures like Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn of Texas and Oklahoma's Robert Kerr are long gone. Now the industry has to deal instead with all 535 members of the House and Senate. Explains one leading oil lobbyist: "The industry realizes that it has to speak to everyone and it tries. We let the facts speak...