Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last September it appeared that things might be different. White House influence had secured the 218 signatures for a discharge petition. Home rule advocates, who had learned from years of experience to expect nothing allowed themselves to become hopeful. They had always been convinced that, once the bill got to the House floor, the rest would be simple...
...addition to the Senate-Administration version of home rule there were twenty-odd others before the House District Committee. Among these were such curiosities as the Broyhill Bill, proposing that the District of Columbia be given back to Maryland, and the Sisk Bill...
...House of Representatives made it apparent fairly early that it found the automatic Federal payment formula in the Administration bill unacceptable. Administration forces finally worked out the compromise Multer Bill, which was essentially the Senate bill without the automatic Federal payment. It was less than home rule advocates wanted, but it seemed likely to pass and differences over the Federal payment could be worked out in conference...
...Multer Bill did not pass. Instead, the House voted to amend the Multer bill by adoption of the Sisk substitute, and once more a Senate-passed Administration home rule bill was removed from consideration on the House floor...
Representative B. F. Sisk (D-Calif.) maintains that he is not opposed to home rule, and claims his bill was a sincere effort to present home rule in a form that the House would accept. The fact remains, however, that his bill was widely supported by opponents of home rule, while home rule advocates never took the bill seriously and were very much surprised when the House passed...