Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate is made up of a number of men . . . but there are about a dozen who call themselves Republicans who owe no real allegiance to our party. . . . We have seen the results in the agriculture bill*. . . . What is to be done? We can't blame the President. ... If he had nine lives, he might devote five of them to these men but he would not gain their votes...
...There is always a joke about the tariff. . . . The measure is put through the House only to be torn to shreds in the Senate and finally turned into a bill that will muster votes by an obscure conference committee...
...obscure conference committee" that would write the Tariff Bill stirred Senator Harrison to ridicule. Explaining that Utah's Senator Reed Smoot would head that conference as chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Harrison cried: "Is he obscure? Why, children have lisped the name of Reed Smoot, have read it a million times. . . . Senator Reed of Pennsylvania? He is not obscure. . . He made his reputation by defending Mellon. . . . And that other Republican conferee, the senior Senator from Indiana [Watson, leader of the Republican majority in the Senate]-he is not obscure. He has been in public life or trying...
...Reference to the 13 Republican Senators who helped to vote the Debenture Plan into the bill against the wishes of President Hoover...
...Passed (57 to 26) a bill to take the census and reapportion the House of Representatives...