Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated and passed a bill appropriating some 285 millions to run the Department of the Interior, including 221 millions for military pensions and a quarter-million (first of four instalments) to buy up privately-owned lands in Yosemite National Park...
...Passed bills increasing funds to modernize the battleships Oklahoma, Nevada, California and to complete two submarines. ¶ Passed bills adjusting the personnel and pay of Marines, Army, Navy, Coast & Geodetic Survey, Public Health Service. ¶ Passed a bill conferring the Distinguished Flying Cross upon Orville Wright and the late Wilbur Wright; sent it to the Senate...
...Debated and debated the House appropriations bill for the Treasury and Post Office departments; put in a joker for $270,000,000 to enforce prohibition at Senator Bruce's instigation; sent it to conference; adopted the conference report, taking out the joker and leaving $13,500,000 for prohibition, by vote of 38 to 35; sent the bill to the President. Said Senator Bruce: "The way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce...
...Debated, debated, debated the Boulder Dam bill and passed it; sent the measure to conference (see below...
...Concurred on the House bill giving the Distinguished Flying Cross to the Wright Brothers; sent it to the President...