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Robert Hillman of M.I.T. was voted outstanding individual speaker in the competition which drew 200 debaters form 68 colleges...
...Count. But it is not all that easy. Under the House system as it has evolved over the decades, the floor leader, the Speaker or anyone else must nearly always go through the Rules Committee to get legislation to the floor. The Rules Committee serves as an absolutely necessary check on the flood of bills introduced each session by the members of the House (by last weekend they had introduced 3,443 so far this session). But beyond that, notions differ. "Some think we are just a traffic cop," says Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith. "Others feel that we have...
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...
Generals on Horseback. In the strange person of Chairman Clarence Cannon the House's polarization of power reaches its extremes in the Appropriations Committee, which can send its bills to the floor without going through Rules. Speaker Rayburn cordially dislikes Cannon, a sentiment which is more than reciprocated. Yet somehow the two old men, each playing by the House rules, seem to balance each other. In 1950, when Appropriations Committee Chairman Cannon pushed his pet "one-package" appropriations bill (all main appropriations in one lump sum so the world could see the awful enormity of it all) through the House...
...Rayburn dislikes the name, which was given to the sessions by Texas' John Nance Garner, who, as a House member, used to signal Speaker Nicholas Longworth each afternoon that it was time to "strike a blow for liberty." Explained Garner: "You know, you get a couple of drinks in a young Congressman, and then you know what he can do. We pay the tuition by supplying the liquor...