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...bonus bill may, however, be considered before work on the tax reduction bill is completed. The House Republicans have called a caucus on the bonus question for Jan. 10. Chairman Green of the Ways and Means Committee explained...
Some 50 of the 344 pages of the tax reduction bill were gone over by the Committee before the Christmas recess. The administrative features of the bill will therefore probably have been surveyed by the time of the Republican caucus. Then the question of precedence is likely to be settled finally...
...just opened its winter session. It meets in the caucus room and many of its meetings are more lively than those that pass in Congress itself; for its members have no listening constituents to temper the full force of their ideas. Membership is limited to those "employed around Congress"? that is, to secretaries of Senators, of Representatives and to others such as Kenneth Romney, cashier in the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House. They number some...
...approval there was more than met the eye. The Republican insurgents -a minority in the Republican caucus, but possessors of the balance of power in the House-dissented from the committee selections. They especially wanted an extra place on the Rules Committee, which will report on suggested changes in the rules for which they have been fighting (TIME...
More conferring, more bargaining, and finally another Republican caucus. The regulars had the choice of securing the support of the Democrats by offering them another seat, or by offering Mr. Nelson a place. They chose the latter course. Representative Tilson was dropped from the slate and Representative Nelson substituted. The result was the reproduction in the Rules Committee of the situation which pertains on the floor of the House-the regular Republicans short of majority, the insurgent Republicans able to give a majority to either party, the Democrats a substantial minority...