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House Rules Fight Smothers Sabath in Gag Rule Debate
In a heated Rules Committee session the Republican Democratic coalition pressed to reinstate the gag rule, silencing Chairman Adolph Sabath as he urged public hearings. Sabath and ally Madden were outvoted 7-4, then Sabath’s bid for a hearing died 9-2, leaving Sabath and Madden against the measure.
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House of Representatives
Republicrat Coalition
Adolph Sabath
Illinois
Sabath
Gene Cox
Georgia
Howard Smith
Virginia
Leo Allen
Allen
House
Ray Madden
Indiana
John Lyle
Texas
James Delaney
New York
Cox, Smith
William Coler
Mississippi
Clarence Brown
Ohio
James Wadsworth
Christian Herter
Massachusetts
Lyle
Delaney
Madden
New Yorker
Rules Committee
Congress