Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 67
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Allred
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boys, now we've passed this one through to third reading. They're
going to try to suspend the rules here, but we've amended this one
a lot. There's been a lot of discussion. I think we all need to
take a cool, dispassionate look at this, and we can pass it over
until tomorrow, and then vote on it tomorrow." Well, the truth of
the matter is that certain bills only come up on certain days, and
it may be as much as a week before that bill may come up again.
And also you've lost your steam roller effect. So this "let's wait
and see what the amendments look like" can become a tactical ploy
in an attempt to defeat the bill. If an opponent can get the bill
put over, it gives him and his forces time to work on the members
and try to present their viewpoints and win people to their side.
In that way it becomes a tactical point.
Toward the end of the session, the House is passing bills
right and left...bam, bam, bam...one right after the other. It
would be a physical impossibility to even read the summary sheets
on all of them, along with the other duties that you have. Most
members are pushing bills of their own as well. There just isn't
enough time. The session, I think, is too short. But, towards the
end, particularly if this steam roller effect is rolling, and the
House is passing bills one after another, where sometimes a member
will just get up and kind of mumble. This can backfire on you if
you get up and say something very general about it. Someone who
opposes it will stand up and say, "I'm sure it's a very good bill,
but would the gentleman explain it more." When somebody gets upand starts fighting with you, the membership sits up and pays a little
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Marcello, Ronald E.; Kamp, H. W. & Allred, David. Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967, book, November 20, 1968; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223569/m1/68/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.