Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called Foreign Policy, because it had neither head nor tail. Another Democrat declared on the floor of the House: "I shall not be surprised if soon it will be heralded to the people that the President is riding this wooden horse for the purpose of cutting down the oat bill at the White House stable...
...Considered and passed with amendments the supply bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce and Labor carrying appropriations for 1925-26. (Returned to House...
...Passed the House Postal Pay Bill, which had been amended by substituting the Senate bill on which the House had refused to act. (Both bills provide pay increases amounting to $68,000,000 a year, the House measure providing rate increases to bring in $61,000,000, that of the Senate, of about $40,000,000.) (Went to conference...
...Passed a House bill authorizing a survey of sites for National Park purposes in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, in the Big Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee and in the Mammoth Cave Region of Kentucky. (Went to the President...
Premier Count Stephen Bethlen prepared a bill for the reestablishment of the House of Magnates (equivalent of British House of Lords). This new House of Magnates* would differ from the old hereditary legislative chamber. It would consist only of 250 members and only members of the House of Habsburg would have hereditary seats, 36 would be elected (presumably for life) by the Magnate or aristocratic class; the remainder by religious, agricultural, financial, commercial and industrial bodies. In effect, it would be a Senate rather than a House of Aristocrats...