Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated the Alien Property Bill...
...news from the White House, that President Coolidge insisted on Secretary Mellon's lower tax-cut figure, availed nothing. When the vote on passage was taken, there remained only 24 "Nays" at Chairman Green's command. "And so," as the Congressional Record says at such times, "the bill was passed...
...Read, debated, amended & passed the House Deficiency Bill; returned it to joint conference; adopted the conference report; sent the bill to the President. ¶ Concurred with the House to adjourn Dec. 21 to Jan. 4. ¶ Confirmed Presidential appointments, including Ambassador-to-Mexico Morrow, Governor-General Stimson of the Philippines, Ambassador-to-Cuba Judah, Under-Secretary of State Olds, Assistant-Secretary of Commerce Brown, Minister-to-Liberia Francis...
...characteristic bit of its Speaker's wit just after the Revenue Act was passed. Seeing that the Republican tax program had been defeated in the voting, Democrat Garner made "a parliamentary inquiry." Why, he asked, should a majority of the Representatives appointed to confer on the Tax bill (when it comes back to the House from the Senate), not represent the majority which had just passed the bill? Though it was dinner time, and he loves to dine, Speaker Nicholas Longworth smiled at this delay. "For the time being," said he, "the Chair would say he would regard that...
...Joke." Stocky, ruddy James V. McClintic, Oklahoma Democrat, arose vexatiously soon after the reading-of-the-journal one day. "Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the House," said he, "some one has introduced a bill, and has signed my name to it, which, if enacted into law, would allow the Secretary of the Navy to buy for every officer of the Navy, a Cadillac, a Packard, or a Rolls-Royce automobile. Everyone knows that such an idea is foreign to that which would be expressed by me. I do not know who did this. . . ." The House laughed. If ever the Navy...