Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amended and passed the House bill of appropriations to run the Independent Offices (Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal Trade Commission, etc., etc.); sent it to conference...
...Debated, and postponed, the Boulder Dam bill...
Last week the House passed the Senate's farm relief bill. Representative Haugen's name (Iowa) again joined Senator McNary's (Oregon) as the author of what, in principle, was voted down once and shelved once by the 68th Congress, voted down and then passed by the 69th Congress, and finally vetoed last year by President Coolidge. The controversial nub of the scheme is illustrated in the pig-selling problem set up above. The pig men are U. S. farmers-raisers of livestock, grain, cotton, tobacco. The philanthropist is the U. S. President Coolidge has been willing...
During the House debate, the equalization fee plan was momentarily sidetracked. Into the Committee of the whole-which is the compact form the House takes during the reading of major bills-Representative Aswell of Louisiana introduced a bill omitting the equalization fee and asked that it be substituted for the McNary-Haugen measure. The Committee of the whole voted in favor. Hubbub then reigned, because the members could not agree as to precisely what had happened, whether a whole new bill had been substituted or just an amendment. When the whole House met, the McNary-Haugenites settled the matter...
...bill went to conference with the Senate to have conflicts removed. The main conflict was as to whether the equalization fee should be adopted with or without a stabilization fund to postpone its operation...