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...President's good friends and Democrats in the Southwest, including Oklahoma's oil-rich Senator Robert Kerr and Texas' Speaker Sam Rayburn, spoke up for free enterprise. The Kerr bill would specifically remove any right of the Federal Power Commission to regulate the price charged for natural gas going into interstate pipelines. And it wouldn't cost consumers "a single red penny," promised Rayburn...
Texas' Sam Rayburn, some of whose best friends are oilmen, finally had to take the floor. "I don't think in view of my record in this House," he said solemnly, "I could be accused of having any great desire to serve the interests over the people." Dingell tried to interrupt him. "Now, John, I'm making this speech," said Sam. The bill, Sam declared blandly, would not raise the price of natural gas by "one red penny...
...Speaker Rayburn, who makes speeches infrequently so that they will be regarded as an occasion, spoke a second time on the. House floor during the week. This time he was trying to save the President's omnibus foreign-aid bill from being amended to shreds. "Do we want friends in the world?" he asked. "Do we need friends . . .? Suppose the democracies of Europe do not stand up, and they are folded within the iron curtain, where will the next war be fought...
...clock in the evening when the bill was brought before the House- a reading of Washington's Farewell Address, bickering oratory over parliamentary points and seven time-consuming roll calls had eaten up the afternoon. The Southerners received subtle assistance from the Speaker, Texas' Sam Rayburn...
...Only four Representatives, all Democrats, have been in Congress longer: Illinois' Sabath, since 1907; North Carolina's Doughton, since 1911; Texas' Rayburn, since 1913; Georgia's Vinson, since...