Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discharge petition. Still another route is the "Calendar Wednesday" procedure. On Wednesdays, a committee chairman can call a bill to the floor without the consent of the Rules Committee, but under conditions that make it possible for opponents to stall the bill to death. Last year Sam Rayburn used the Calendar Wednesday method to rescue a depressed-areas bill from Judge Smith's clutches, but that was the first time the device had been used since...
...Rules Committee, including Howard Smith, rebelled against the New Deal because of Franklin Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court and his proposal to set a 40?-an-hour minimum wage (strenuously opposed by owners of Southern textile and lumber mills). From 1937 on, all during Sam Rayburn's years as Speaker, the coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats successfully dominated the Rules Committee...
Though he did not control the committee, Rayburn usually managed, down to 1959, to find a way to bring to the floor any bill that he really wanted to see get there. Georgia's late Eugene Cox, longtime leader of the Southerners on the Rules Committee, had a deep affection for Rayburn, often at Rayburn's urging voted in committee for a bill that he would vote against on the floor. After Cox died in 1952 and Judge Smith succeeded him as captain of the Southern conservatives, Rayburn sometimes managed to get help from Republicans on the committee...
Postscript Fiasco. Rayburn's serious troubles with the Rules Committee flared up in the 86th Congress-despite the fact that in the 1958 congressional elections the Democrats had widened their margin in the House to nearly 2 to 1, most lopsided majority since the 19303. What made the Rules Committee more troublesome than before was that Rayburn could no longer get any cooperation from the Republicans. Compromiser Joe Martin was deposed from the Republican leadership by Indiana's tough, uncompromising Charlie Halleck (and last week registered his vote against Halleck and for Rayburn). Halleck filled the Republican seats...
...Break the Grip. The postscript session riled the frustrated young Kennedy "pragmatic liberals," and they prodded Sam Rayburn to do something about Judge Smith. By the time Congress convened again after the election, Speaker Rayburn had made up his mind that he had to break Smith's grip on the Rules Committee...