Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Defeated, 198 to 183, the Fenn bill which would reapportion Congressional membership...
...majority. The group changes with the issue. Last week it was composed of a few old-guard Republicans and one Demo-cratic buffoon. It was dangerous because the end of the session was near. By a 40%-hour filibuster it accomplished its purpose, damaged its members, killed an appropriation bill and a half dozen other important pieces of legislation...
...South Carolina and described the life and death of Jefferson Davis. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania mumbled election returns from his state, said he hoped to reach Georgia by dawn. A correspondent in the press gallery whispered: "Poor fellow, Reed would stand on his head on the Senate floor if Bill Vare asked him. . . ." The Senate restaurant was out of coffee. Mr. Heflin was asleep on a lounge; a thoughtful jester had covered him with a red drapery...
Senator Warren was pleading for his deficiency appropriation bill (see below). Once it seemed likely that a compromise would be reached. Senator Reed of Missouri offered to displace his investigating resolution to allow quick passage of the deficiency bill, the alien property bill and the public buildings bill. Thereupon, Mr. Blease wandered in, half-asleep. He heard the words "unanimous consent." He shouted: "I object." Nobody was going to pull any wool over his eyes...
With tears in his voice, if not in his eyes, the senectissimus of all U. S. Senators stood up and pleaded with snarling filibusterers for the passage of his Second Deficiency bill, dearer to him than all investigating of slush funds. He, Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming, 82, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, had made this plea more than 20 times during the 40½-hour Reed v. Reed wrangle. He had spent half of one night on a Senate lounge when he should have been home in bed. His snow-white moustache drooped; his eyes were sunken, bleary...