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<br />0690 <br /> <br />31 <br /> <br /> <br />a Senator, and talked to old Congressional friends of his who <br />were on the Rules Committee. The Senator then went to the Rules <br />Committee personally and in one of the very f.ew times in history <br />the Rules Committee reversed themselves and ruled favorablY <br />100 <br />upon the bill. <br />After many years of frustration the Fry:l.ngpan-Arkansas <br />bill was finally passed. On June 13. 1962 the bill passed the <br />House of Representatives and a companion bill passed the Senate <br />101 <br />on August 6, 1962. The bill was signed into law by Presi- <br />dent Kennedy at 9:45 a.m. on August 16, 1962 in the Oval Room <br />102 <br />of the White House. <br /> <br />100 <br />Interview with Selby Young, Colorado Springs, <br />Colorado, p. 173. <br />101 <br />Christy, p. 57. <br />102 <br />Young, p. 173. <br />