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...Costly Promise. The protectionist forces moved quickly to consolidate their gain. Ohio's Republican Representative Clarence Brown moved that the bill be left wide open to amendment. But Speaker Rayburn stemmed the tide. He got up from his chair, walked down the steps to the House well, and standing ramrod straight, spoke into the microphone. Said he: "Only once in the history of the House, in 42 years in my memory, has a bill of this kind and character been considered except under a closed rule . . . So as an old friend to all of you, as a lover...
...House of Representatives received the message with reservations. Speaker Sam Rayburn grumbled to newsmen that Ike was asking for authority that he already possessed. Majority Leader John McCormack bitterly denounced the Administration's "vacillating policy." Then the House leadership rose to the occasion. Said Speaker Rayburn: The President wants "to do it this way, so I think it ought to be done this way rather promptly." Five hours after Ike's message was received by the House, its Foreign Affairs Committee approved the resolution...
Next day, with Rayburn's blessing, the resolution went to the House floor under a closed rule, i.e., no amendments were allowed and debate was limited to three hours. Most speeches were highly emotional. Said South Carolina's Democratic Representative Mendel Rivers: "I believe while this thing is fraught with danger, it is far more dangerous to be guilty of inaction than to be guilty of action. I believe in action." Cried New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sieminski: "Does mainland China want Japan on Formosa? Does Russia want Japan in Korea? That is the issue both...
...Washington's staunchest bachelors, new House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 63, made a date with his youngest sister, Lucinda Rayburn, gallantly helped her into a fur wrap before they headed for the White House, where Texas-Democrat Rayburn was the President's dinner guest of honor...
...than 1,000 bills went into the House hopper on opening day. New York's Republican Representative Kenneth Keating alone introduced 45, of which he had tried to get 35 through the 83rd Congress. But the most significant thing that happened during the first week was that Speaker Rayburn designated as House Bill No. 1 a bill to carry out President Eisenhower's recommendations for a liberal foreign trade program. It is in this field that the 84th Congress has its best chance for a solid achievement...