Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judge Smith is not always so obstructive, and even his methods pall before those of some previous Rules chairmen, e.g., Illinois' Adolph Sabath, who used to feign fainting fits to get hearings adjourned. On the vast majority of bills Smith works closely with Rayburn or McCormack in speeding the legislative process...
...said, smiling almost despite himself. "What rule do I look at?" Twinkling his delight, Judge Smith cited the rule by which he could -and did -put off civil rights hearings for a precious while. Recalls Smith, puffing on his old curved pipe: "I felt like a well-fed missionary at a cannibals' convention. They were really mad at me. I don't blame them a bit. I would have been mad had I been in their shoes...
Last week the buckram-bound volume that contains the U.S. budget went from the White House to Capitol Hill. Wrapped up in that budget were all the plans and programs of the U.S. for the next fiscal year. Speaker Sam Rayburn, Majority Leader John McCormack, Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith, Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills would all help bring those programs to life. The dew of innocence was still in the eye of the 86th Congress, the fires of hope in its breast. New "approaches" hung high like...
Down on the Farm. Last year, in the final hectic days of the 85th Congress, Rules Chairman Smith took no chances on being forced by a committee petition to call hearings. As a dozen major bills -relief for depressed areas, housing, mineral subsidies, etc. -piled up before Rules, Howard Smith simply disappeared from Washington. He returned a week later, smilingly explained that he had had some hay down on his farm that needed tending. Says he today: "There were about a dozen things thrown at the Rules Committee, and they would have cost the taxpayers about $10 billion. There...
...newspapers raise a lot of hell about how arbitrary we are," says Smith. "But we grant thousands of rules while denying one." Moreover, the Rules Committee can be -and is -used by the leadership to bottle up irresponsible legislation for which Congressmen may be politically committed to vote if it reaches the floor. "Many, many times." says Howard Smith, "members have told me that they were going to speak publicly for a bill, and if it got out on the floor they would have to vote for it, but they were against the bill and wanted it killed...