Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House, Mills displayed an aptitude for financial facts and figures, earned appointment to the Ways and Means Committee and, in 1958, became its chairman. He was then considered a prime favorite to succeed Speaker Sam Rayburn, even though he had signed a widely publicized Southern Manifesto of white supremacy, which eventually cost him the favor of Northern Democrats. But his performance as chairman of Ways and Means has not lived up to its promise. A naturally cautious, conciliatory man, Mills let his committee dawdle endlessly over legislation, to the point that it was nicknamed the "No Ways...
Democratic and Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are nearing agreement on a plan (that had once been resisted by the late Speaker Sam Rayburn) to increase House membership from 435 to 439. The change would help solve prickly line-drawing problems in Illinois, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania by giving each of those states, plus Missouri, one more Representative than they were allotted after the 1960 census...
Member of the Board. The U.S. in 1928 was at the pinnacle of Republican prosperity, but Depression-and the Democrats-were soon to come. In Washington, John Nance Garner of Texas was floor leader of the Democratic House minority. Garner and his crony, Texas Representative Sam Rayburn, were ever on the lookout for promising newcomers, and they liked the look of the freshman from Boston. McCormack voted his party's line undeviatingly. He worked diligently at the menial committee assignments that are a new Congressman's lot, and he quickly learned the procedural rules of the House...
...Hell," growled Garner, "we want you on Ways & Means." McCormack was dumfounded, for Ways & Means was and is one of the most powerful and sought-after committees in the House. McCormack followed Garner's instructions and persuaded the Massachusetts delegation to nominate him for the post; then Sam Rayburn called to tell him that the entire Texas delegation would vote for him. McCormack was the first Democratic Representative to win the cherished assignment after less than two terms in office...
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, an obese Lutheran minister, was the first Speaker of the House of Representatives and the first functioning head of the U.S. Government; he presided over the 65-member House in New York for a month before President George Washington was inaugurated. Sam Rayburn of Texas served longer as Speaker than any other man: 16 years. From Muhlenberg to McCormack. 45 have ruled as Speakers of the House (one lasted just one day). Some were great men, many were toadies and sycophants, a few were colorful despots. Among the outstanding Speakers...