Word: recommitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million, he was routed by a vote of 171 to 78. When Wisconsin's Lawrence Smith, with the backing of Charlie Halleck, proposed a $90 million cut, he could muster only 47 ayes to 147 noes. When Oklahoma's Glen D. Johnson, a heretical Democrat, moved to recommit (and thus kill) the bill, he was howled down. Finally, late one afternoon, Speaker Joe Martin took the entire House by surprise to do some howling down himself. Joe Martin banged his gavel, barked out: "All in favor of passage of the bill say aye, the opposed no; the ayes...
Then loyal Majority Leader Alben Barkley got busy. He tried to avoid the issue, but his move to recommit the bill to committee for "further study" was beaten. The Senate was ready to argue the bill on its merits. And when it came to merits, the proposal to draft strikers into the Army was soundly beaten, 70-to-13. Senator Taft's first lone cry had grown to a chorus...
Stalling Action. It was clear now that every section of the emergency measure was in for rough treatment. Democrats scurried again to recommit the bill, lost again by 40-to-42. Then Alben Barkley showed that the White House itself was squirming to get off the hook. He offered amendments that filed down the bill's sharp teeth in almost every section. He fought hard against others that would have put some teeth back in. The Senate scrambled Party lines, produced curious alliances and strange turnabouts. At one point Alben Barkley remarked: "To see the Senator from Florida [Pepper...
...bill lay in the Rules Committee for five days, was finally shoehorned out onto the floor by Speaker Sam Rayburn. It squeaked through its first test (a resolution to make the bill in order) by ten votes (202-to-192). The anti-Wallace men tried again: a motion to recommit the bill. It was beaten by eight votes (204-to-196), and the opposition folded. House Republicans, who regard Wallace as an economic madman or worse, and Southern Democrats, who feel the same way, then joined the pro-Wallace-men. The George bill was passed...