Word: rayburnisms
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Instead, the curtain had gone up on a slow first act in which Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader Scott Lucas had run off one or two minor legislative routines. The pace should have been brisk; it was slow, and as the act proceeded, it got slower. That could be explained by the necessity of getting things organized. But the author, for one, believed that the trouble might be deeper than that. Last week he sailed on stage to charge that someone, in fact, had rewritten part of his show...
With the session barely under way, the House was beginning to look like a progressive-school kindergarten. One day last week, New York Democrat Andrew Somers, who has been around the House long enough (24 years) to know better, shouted "idiot" at Nebraska Republican Arthur Miller. Speaker Sam Rayburn was determined to enforce decorum before his 89 freshmen could pick up such uncouth habits. He got the House's Emily Post, professorial Representative George Dondero of Michigan, to lecture the boys...
Where Will We Wind Up? On the House side, Republicans were still trying groggily to get on their feet. They heard that Speaker Sam Rayburn, more confident than a lot of others, hoped to have a bill repealing the Taft-Hartley act on the floor by March 1, and would try to give Harry Truman just about everything else he wanted-with the possible exception of the whole $4 billion in new taxes. With tears actually running down his face, one angry and frustrated G.O.P. leader said: "I can't imagine what Sam Rayburn and John McCormack [majority leader...
...listened to plans for Inauguration Day (Jan. 20): the committee expected 750,000 visitors, 30 floats. He rode up to the Hill for a birthday luncheon for Speaker Sam Rayburn in the Speaker's dining room, flabbergasted Congressmen by popping into the House chamber for the last dull rites of that archaic ceremony -counting the electoral votes. Cracked he, as he left: "It looks like I'm ahead...
...past two years. Obviously what made everyone sit up and take notice of it this time was the fact that Harry Truman was putting it before a Democratic Congress which might very well give him a number of the things for which he asked. House Speaker Sam Rayburn last week asserted confidently that Congress would receive the program with "considerable favor." Democratic Congressman Robert ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, was not so sure about one point. Said he: "The country will not look very favorably on increased taxes until the people are convinced that...