Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know where we're at. Are we going to have a tariff bill? If not, let's not meet here at 10 o'clock every day and sit until six and go through the motions of considering this bill. Let's meet at twelve and adjourn at one and then Senators can go out on the golf links every...
...hardly died away, before the Senate battlefield rang with a new and deafening clamor. Again stacking their arms. Senate warriors fell to loud and disputatious shouting as to the responsibilities for tariff delays. Two weeks had been spent on the first of 15 separate rate schedules in the bill. All were agreed upon the impossibility of complying with the Olympian command that the measure be disposed of in the same length of time...
Major General Reed of Pennsylvania: "The bill's as dead as a dodo. Debate is a mockery . . . but I for one will not agree to let the bill go through without adequate debate...
...Democratic Field Marshal Simmons: "The President's proposal is preposterous! We can't pass a tariff bill in any two weeks...
...Defending the $40,000,000 Widow's Pensions Bill, famed Lady Cynthia Mosley, daughter of the late, great, crusty Conservative Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, made her maiden speech. A rabid Socialist M. P., she cried: "I have been getting something for nothing all my life! . . . Why shouldn't poor widowed women get something for nothing...