Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 69
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Allred
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and suddenly they'll say, "Just a minute," and they'll jump up and
ask the speaker a question or cast a vote or something. So you do
keep up with what's going on. But people who come in to see the
House wonder about all the milling around. They feel you're not
really paying attention to the people's business.
Now the House has calendars for bills, particularly since they
changed the rules to put in a Rules Committee. There are local and
uncontested bills which are included on various calendars. A consent
calendar, for example, is one where, if a certain number of members
object to your bill, it's knocked off of that calendar and put on
another one. It's to your advantage to have a bill on the local,
uncontested calendar or what they now call a consent calendar, because
these are generally passed almost automatically. I think the Senate
calls them local, uncontested bills because everybody knows that
they're just going through the form of passing these bills. A lot
of them are local bills, and it's a tradition in the House that you
don't mess with somebody else's local bill. It affects his area and
the courtesy is that you don't mess with it. It's more than courtesy
because if you mess with somebody's local bill, that person is liable
to go around and have one of your pet bills killed. Also, it's
considered better to let each locality handle its own. The theory
behind this is that a member from that locality is not going to do
something that will be detrimental to his locality because he knows
he's got to go back to those same people for re-election.
But what you run into sometimes, particularly during generallyroutine business, is people who get up and mumble. You're wandering
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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/m1/70/?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.