Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the bill appropriating some $138,000,000 to run the Department of Agriculture, including $4,544,000 to rebuild flood-wrecked roads in Kentucky, Vermont, New Hampshire...
...Passed, 70 to 0, a Flood Control bill (see below); sent it to the House...
...last week the Senators wended out of their chamber tingling all over with virtue and generosity. To their own and many another person's great surprise they had passed a Flood Control bill; passed it so suddenly that they had had to make their speeches on it after voting instead of before; passed it 70 to 0, moreover, so that only a "love feast" attended the event, without partisanship...
Senate-leaders Curtis (Republican) and Robinson (Democrat) had put their heads together and determined that, after all, Flood Relief was not a thing to bicker and trifle over. They had agreed to ram Senator Jones' bill, all points of which had been settled in committee, through to a vote at the first opportunity. The opportunity came when Wisconsin's Blaine long and earnestly opposed Senator Norbeck's migratory bird bill, providing Federal bird sanctuaries to be paid for by Federal hunting licenses at $1 each. So long, so earnestly did Senator Elaine and one or two others...
Senator Jones, as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, made the only major speech on the bill, outlining its provisions, which were...