Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President had vetoed 1) the Reed-Bulwinkle bill, which exempts railroads from antitrust suits for rate agreements, provided the rates are approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission; 2) a bill which would remove 750,000 salesmen and "independent contractors" from social security; and 3) a Labor Department appropriation bill which contained a rider transferring the U.S. Employment Service to the Federal Security Agency. All were overridden by wide margins...
Time was running out. Agreement on a housing bill seemed hopeless. Michigan's Jesse Wolcott got the House Rules Committee to kill a bill carrying what he called the "socialistic" provisions of the Senate's Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill for slum clearance and 500,000 low-cost housing units. The Senate balked at his own housing bill which he rammed through the House under a gag rule. It extended tax privileges to private builders, guaranteed their profits and mortgages. Cried New Hampshire's Charles Tobey: "A monstrosity . . . The veterans have been flim-flammed...
...Teeny, Weeny Bill." Then the word came from Martin's office. Congress would work all night until it got a housing and a farm bill, then adjourn. Tired conferees met for yet another session. At 2:45 a.m. the housing compromise was ready. It wasn't much. Oklahoma's Mike Monroney called it "a teeny, weeny housing bill." It provided only for a government secondary market for G.I. mortgages, authorized veterans cooperative apartments. Wolcott...
...Longest: 54 hours and 10 minutes in 1915 when the ship-purchase bill was being debated...
...Passed a bill to admit 205,000 displaced persons in the next two years and permit 15,000 refugees already in the U.S. to remain. Because the bill stipulated that eligible DPs must have arrived in the Allied occupation zones of Germany before Dec. 22, 1945 (thus excluding many Jews fleeing 1946 Polish pogroms), and set aside special quotas for farmers, Baits & Volksdeutsche, it was denounced as discriminatory against Jews and Catholics...