Controversial Opinion Quotes



In one of the most blatant statements of the arbitrary power of congressional committee chairmen, the chairman of the House Rules Committee blocked an investigation of military procurement even though every other member of the committee wanted to pursue the investigation. The prerogative of the chairman was upheld by the Speaker, and on appeal, by the House as a whole, but by 1924 House rules were amended to diminish the arbitrary power of chairmen.


Mt. St. Helens was named after him. Alleyne wanted to use the word “liberty” as that would come from the King but a “right” existed independently of the king. In what was considered a great diplomatic compromise of the day, Article III acknowledges the American “right” to fish off the Grand Banks and gives them the “liberty” off the shores of “all other of his Brittannic Majesty’s Dominions in America