Word: passman
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...House members, led by Louisiana's Democratic Representative Otto Passman, an implacable enemy of foreign aid, fought a bitter week's delaying action, finally forcing a settlement of $3.87 billion...
...better way to get around the House Appropriations Committee, Maass suggested, would have been to eliminate its chairman, Rep. Otto Passman...
...figure fell $596 million short of the foreign aid authorization bill that had just been signed by President Kennedy, and it was achieved only after a hard fight. Under the leadership of Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman, a longtime foreign aid critic, the House Appropriations Committee had approved a bill calling for an $896 million cut from the authorized figure, including $400 million to be taken from military aid. In the maneuvering that preceded the floor debate, Passman agreed to reinstate $175 million. Then, on an amendment sent up by Michigan Republican Gerald Ford and backed by G.O.P. leaders, the House...
...Tough Way. In the heat of battle, when persuasion fails. O'Brien is perfectly willing to play it the tough way. When Louisiana's penny-pinching Representative Otto Passman decided to block a $600 million request for Latin American aid money in his House appropriations subcommittee, O'Brien's operatives went quietly behind his back, lined up enough votes to pass the bill over the chairman's objection; Passman eventually voted for the appropriation himself, rather than have it known he could not control his committee. Again, during the aid-to-education debate, Chicago...
...from the Treasury-a tactic designed to bypass the authority of the penny-pinching House Appropriations Committee. Even respected Republican Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon argued that such "backdoor spending" was an economically sound procedure, used by every President since Herbert Hoover to support some 20 federal agencies. Aid Opponent Passman felt so sure that he did not have enough votes to block the bill in his Appropriations Subcommittee that he called off hearings. Kennedy himself felt confident enough to reject a compromise on the five-year commitment offered by Minnesota's Republican Representative Walter Judd. Suddenly, it seemed...