Word: rayburnisms
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...youthful county judge, Mills fulfilled the first half of his dream by getting elected to Congress. He was 29. Normally it takes considerable seniority to win a place on the prestigious Ways and Means Committee. But Mills reached the goal in a mere four years. Speaker Sam Rayburn, impressed with Mills's brains and diligence, gave him a push. And the committee's chairman, North Carolina's Robert ("Muley") Doughton, author of the dictum that the objective of tax policy is to "get the most feathers with the fewest squawks from the goose," soon found studious Congressman Mills a valuable...
...tried to increase the committee membership to 15 by adding three Congressmen, including two who would support the New Frontier legislative program. The House approved the plan by a vote of 217 to 212, but only after a savage battle in which the great influence of then-Speaker Sam Rayburn was the deciding factor...
...thing. Speaker John McCormack has neither the House influence nor the enthusiasm for the expanded Rules Committee that Rayburn had. For another, this year's elections saw Republicans pick up two seats. And although some liberals argued that they had really increased their strength. President Kennedy, for one, knew better. Said he on television last week: "We are not in quite as good shape as we were for the last two years...
...keep the name of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson out of the public record. An Agriculture Department official, said Manuel, told him that in a January 1961 attempt to get special treatment from the department, Estes had invoked the names of Johnson and the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn. But when the same official, one Carl J. Miller, publicly testified before the subcommittee, he omitted Johnson's name, mentioning only Rayburn and Texas' Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough...
...Boykin threw a testimonial party for Texas' Sam Rayburn in a Washington hotel, invited just about everybody in the phone book. Winston Churchill cabled his regrets, but 900 others came to sample a score of cases of Scotch and bourbon, along with Quebec salmon, Alabama venison, Montana elk, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia turkey, and antelope from Chugwater, Wyo. Boykin's all-for-love motto was bantered about the banquet hall. Everybody had a great time, and jolly Frank was delighted to fork over...