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February 3, 1951
The Detroit Tribune
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
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Walter White, NAACP executive secretary, denounces in Washington the House Rules Committee's restored dictatorial powers over legislation as a major setback to democracy and civil rights efforts. Republicans and Southern Democrats ended the 21-day rule.
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House Rules Change Hit By Walter White
WASHINGTON. The restoration to the House Rules Committee of sweeping powers of life-or-death over pending legislation was bitterly denounced here today by Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
"This restoration of dictatorial power over all legislation in the Congress to the hands of a dozen men is one of the greatest setbacks to democracy," the NAACP executive secretary said.
"It means that those of us who are fighting for the enactment of federal civil rights and social welfare legislation will have an even more bitter struggle on our hands."
In the first action in the new House of Representatives, Republicans and Southern Democrats teamed up to kill the 21-day rule, which curbed the power of the Rules Committee by providing that bills bottled up by that group for twenty-one days could be called to the floor of the House for action.
Now, as was the case before the 21-day rule was put into effect at the beginning of the 81st Congress two years ago, a bill not released for action by the Rules Committee can be called to the floor only by a petition signed by a majority—218 members—of the House.
WASHINGTON. The restoration to the House Rules Committee of sweeping powers of life-or-death over pending legislation was bitterly denounced here today by Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
"This restoration of dictatorial power over all legislation in the Congress to the hands of a dozen men is one of the greatest setbacks to democracy," the NAACP executive secretary said.
"It means that those of us who are fighting for the enactment of federal civil rights and social welfare legislation will have an even more bitter struggle on our hands."
In the first action in the new House of Representatives, Republicans and Southern Democrats teamed up to kill the 21-day rule, which curbed the power of the Rules Committee by providing that bills bottled up by that group for twenty-one days could be called to the floor of the House for action.
Now, as was the case before the 21-day rule was put into effect at the beginning of the 81st Congress two years ago, a bill not released for action by the Rules Committee can be called to the floor only by a petition signed by a majority—218 members—of the House.
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Historical Event
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Justice
Misfortune
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House Rules Committee
Walter White
Naacp
Civil Rights
21 Day Rule
Southern Democrats
Republicans
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Walter White
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Washington
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Walter White denounces the restoration of sweeping powers to the House Rules Committee as a setback to democracy and a hindrance to civil rights legislation. Republicans and Southern Democrats killed the 21-day rule, requiring a majority petition to bypass the committee.