Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaker Sam Rayburn, who rarely speaks out any more, stood solemnly before the House, shaking his bald dome and searching for the right words. "I fear," he said, "I am speaking to minds that are closed." It is only reasonable, he pleaded, to give a far-reaching legislative idea a fair trial. Though popular Sam Rayburn has immense prestige, the Congressmen listened coldly. Seeing them unmoved, Sam made a brazen appeal to the patronage instinct: "Let me say to you, my Democratic friends, that I found out a long time ago that in this House the people get along...
...nothing the Speaker could do or say was going to save Harry Truman from another defeat. The rebellious House was out to kill the Administration's spectacular Brannan farm plan (TIME, April 18). And to make the chase more annoying, some of Sam Rayburn's most stalwart followers were leading the posse...
...count, taken by queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader John McCormack prowled the floor, corralling votes, ably keeping their eyes on the intricate parliamentary maneuvering...
Speaker Sam Rayburn used the same arguments on recalcitrant Democrats. When the revised ERP bill hit the House floor, it sailed through 193 to 27. Half of the cut in funds for occupied areas was also restored. It was a compromise designed to keep everybody happy: the House had had its fun, swinging the ax -and, in the end, ECA was probably not hurt badly, just nicked in the neck...
Speaker Sam Rayburn: "I'll believe Stu Symington is a crook when he comes up here and tells...