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Before this session Udall got in touch with other committee Democrats who felt as he did. Together the rebels drew up 16 rules specifying set times for meetings and establishment of regular subcommittees. They got Sam Rayburn's pledge of neutrality, buttonholed other members of both parties to point out defects in Barden's chairmanship: e.g., seven of nine Administration-supported labor requests were pigeonholed last year without even committee hearings. When this session's first Education and Labor meeting was called last week, the rebels had a majority (17 of 30) committed to their rules changes...
...partisan monetary commission to study the nation's overall financial system (TIME, Jan. 21) ran into a strictly partisan ambush in Congress last week. By a vote of 16 Democrats to twelve Republicans, the House Banking and Currency Committee, with full covering fire from Speaker Sam Rayburn, rejected the President's plea for permission to appoint nine U.S. financial leaders to lead the study, instead decided to do the job itself. The chairman of the investigating committee would undoubtedly be Democrat Wright Patman. Said Speaker Rayburn: "If there is going to be an investigation, Congress ought...
Possibly because he has promised that he will not be a candidate, Billy Blakley's arrival in Washington touched off unusual harmony among the capital's Texas contingent. Smiled Sam Rayburn: "This is the first time anything political has happened in Texas that was unanimous...
Because of opposition to the group by Congressional chieftans, Senator Lyndon Johnson, Majority leader of the Senate, and Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, only two of the 12 members of Congress Butler appointed have agreed to serve. They are Senators Estes Kefauver (Tenn.) and Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn...
Important Key. Democratic Congressional Leaders Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn had already agreed on their general policy: they would wait for the Eisenhower Administration to present its program, deal with the proposals pretty much on their merits, hold off until 1958 (an election year) before unwrapping their own party-labeled legislative package. The Republicans faced a sterner test of congressional leadership. If the 1956 elections proved nothing else, they showed that the G.O.P. cannot depend even upon Ike's popularity to give it control of Congress; the key to an improved Republican congressional electoral showing lies in an improved...