Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill authorizing $25,000 to be spent policing the Hoover inauguration. ¶Passed a bill authorizing additional appropriations for vocational education. ¶Passed a bill transferring certain Indian claims in Idaho, Kansas and Oregon to the U. S. Court of Claims for settlement. ¶Passed a bill covering settlement by Interior Department of damage claims from Federal irrigation works on Indian-owned land...
...Passed many a minor Indian Affairs bill...
...Disagreed to the Senate amendments to the First Deficiency Appropriation bill and voted, 240 to 141, to send it to conference (see below...
...Received and debated a $352,000,000 appropriation bill for the Navy Department (see below...
...Navy and its needs commanded both decks of Congress last week. While the House was 'Considering the present requirements of the Navy Department in a $352,000,000 appropriation bill, the Senate wrestled with itself as to whether to give this branch of national defense 15 swift new cruisers and, if so, when...