Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 7
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then the committee sessions ran very late in the evening, notably
the State Affairs Committee. Representative Dick Cory, of Victoria,
was chairman of the State Affairs group and some of their hearings
ran to two, three, and four o'clock in the morning. I was sort of
glad I was not on State Affairs, although it is one of the more
powerful committees down there.
Some of the hearings were "window dressing," letting people
feel they'd had their say, when the members and those who followed
politics closely knew the particular bill was most likely not going
to get out of the committee because the speaker or the chairman
opposed it or some similar reason. But sometimes a bill surprised
us and moved, perhaps in a modified form. Or the hearings might
be sort of ground work for reconsideration in a succeeding session.
So the hearings were probably worthwhile in those respects.
And then of course, the Appropriations Committee had hearings,
particularly at the start, where every department and agency came
in and presented their needs, and so forth. I was a member of
that committee and we were holding hearings morning, noon, and
evening, particularly for the first few weeks, until we had heard
everyone. And then later on there came the time when we had to get
together--this time in the private dining room in Heatly's apart-
ment house--to discuss the bill. Representative Bill Heatly, of
Paducah, is the chairman of the Appropriations Committee. In fact,
I think he holds the record for the longest tenure of chairmanship
of that committee thus far. And he got the whole committee togetherone evening, and we went through the bill page by page, and it's
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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/m1/8/?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.