Word: rayburnisms
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...curtain never went up. Speaker of the House Rayburn had nailed it down earlier that day by barring Radio and TV from sessions of all House committees. What might have been a great show turned into nothing...
Before the roll call was finished, House Speaker Sam Rayburn was busy scribbling messages summoning his lieutenants to a conference. There he hammered one point: this isn't a question of a good tax bill or a bad tax bill; it's a matter of this tax bill or none at all before adjournment. For the next two days, while party fixers hustled around to put the pressure on the deviating Democrats, a House committee went through the formality of a new conference with the Senate on modifying the bill's provisions. The face-saving changes were...
...make sure of passage the second time, Sam Rayburn turned his gavel over to New Jersey's Edward Hart and made one of his rare speeches from the well of the chamber. The House passed the bill by 185 to 160, sent it to the White House. Harry Truman signed the next day, to make certain that the new personal-income-tax provisions will go into effect...
...instead of Jan. 3, as prescribed (but not required) by the 20th amendment to the Constitution. Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland observed that Jan. 3 was Thursday, a wasteful day, and suggested that the date be pushed forward to the following Monday, Jan. 7. House Speaker Sam Rayburn gently suggested another push to Tuesday, the 8th. His reason: the Monday meeting would require him to travel on Jan. 6, his 70th birthday...
Last month, as a result, Congress made its first exception to the Foreign Service Act of 1946. Both houses voted unanimously to keep L'Heureux in Washington for at least another year. Unknowingly, they also gave him a vacation. Last week, because Speaker Sam Rayburn had not signed the bill before the House's summer recess, L'Heureux was at home in Chevy Chase, improving his vacation hours by painting his ten-room house. This week, the ex-elevator boy will be back protecting what Congress described as "the best interests of national security...