Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fought to repeal entirely the tax on pleasure automobiles (although the bill cut automobile taxes more than half), and he lost...
...greatest fight to increase the maximum estate tax from 20% (in the bill) to 25%. "What has made possible the perpetration of these taxing outrages at the present time?" said he. "Let me tell you. Bryan is dead, Wilson is dead, Roosevelt is dead, La-Follette is dead, Gompers is dead. They may have differed in many matters, but if they were all living they would unite in their opposition, to this bill. . . . And now may I mention the names of some other leaders on this side? You will recognize them as I mention them? Clark, DeArmond, James, Kitchin, Padgett...
...last, when the House (as Committee of the Whole) had overruled him every time and the bill was ready, he moved, to return it to the committee to have the surtaxes and estate taxes raised to 25% maximum. Again he lost, 267 to 147. Forty-three Democrats joined with the regular Republicans against...
...Committee of the Whole referred the bill to the House for a formal vote. Nearly all jumped on the band wagon. Only 25 negative votes were passed?by two Socialists, three Farmer-Laborites, ten Republicans (mostly from Wisconsin) and ten Democrats?among them Rainey?bloody but unbowed...
...House passed its non-partisan tax bill and sent it to the Senate?almost unanimously, almost without a change. So the bill went to the Senate where a half of that body (more or less, no one can yet say) were sharpening their claws to tear it to pieces, prepared to fight over every hair on its body, with the chances nearly equal whether it will emerge the same creature or quite another. But Senate leaders none the less expressed a hope that it would emerge before March...