Word: rayburnisms
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...political issue of the year had been set by Republican Dwight Eisenhower in his dedication to a balanced budget. Since the heavily Democratic 86th Congress convened in January, few of its members had been more restless within the restraints of the balanced-budget idea than House Speaker Sam Rayburn. He was plainly and openly chafing-and when Mister Sam chafes, he chafes hard. His best opportunity so far to tilt the Eisenhower budget came last week, when the House considered housing legislation. The result was one of the roughest and tumblingest congressional fights in a long while...
...Rains Bill Came. It was on the vote to substitute the Herlong bill for the Rains bill that the crucial test would surely come. Sam Rayburn determined to win at all cost. He summoned his lieutenants, prepared for action, and growled: "I like to lick 'em on the first...
Back on Capitol Hill, Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson saw opportunity: REA was one of those rare issues where Democrats of the South would likely stick together with other Democrats around the compass. They decided they could muster the necessary two-thirds vote to override the veto and doubly defeat the President. Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and Ike's other lieutenants in the Senate were in glum agreement; with the help of six farm-bloc minded Republicans (Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota...
...things stand now, Gail Harris at first base, aging Eddie Yost--for years a more prominent fixture in Washington than Sam Rayburn--at third, and tobacco chewing Rocky Bridges at short do not look very promising, and this deficiency will keep the Tigers off the top, unless the big guns deliver well beyond expectations...
...virtually all the legislation handled so far, the 86th has started off as though prepared to go all the way in upsetting the budget, then had second thoughts and trimmed the spending to something fairly close to Administration requests. Just before Congress recessed last week, House Speaker Sam Rayburn let it be known that he was getting tired of the whole business. "If we cut a dollar below what [the Administration] wants," complained Mr. Sam, "it's like the heavens are going to fall. If we appropriate a dollar above their request, it's reckless and radical spending...