Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated at length and finally passed the debt-funding agreement of the U. S. with Italy, by a vote of 257 to 133. (Bill went to the Senate...
...bill of 1926 having been constructed by the Ways and Means Committee of the House and passed by the latter body practically without alteration (TIME, Nov. 23, 30), last week passed through its third stage the total tax reduction from $325,736,000 (as proposed in the bill as it came from the House) to $500,000,000, this to be done by a large reduction in the rate at which the public debt is retired...
...large, all the changes in the bill tended to increase the total tax reduction proposed by the House from...
...important result of the compromises in the committee was that the Democrats agreed not to oppose the bill as a body. So on the floor it will be "non-partisan," with support from both parties and subject only to individual attack. That factor should greatly hasten its passage...
...enemies. Yesterday, the pro-Court senators, although assured of eventual ratification of the present protocol as it stood, added a few more amendments to that already much emasculated measure, thereby showing themselves less interested in the success of the new peace plan, than in passing some kind of a bill to fulfill their campaign promises...