Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This arithmetic clearly showed the bill's sponsors that, of the 70-odd Senators whose votes had been counted on to pass it, a respectable majority of Democrats were glad for a chance to kill it without openly voting against it. The bill's Republican supporters, who might have been expected to vote for cloture to embarrass the Democrats, decided that since their votes could not swing it they should vote against cloture as a matter of minority principle...
That was exactly what Filibusterer Connally had counted on. Three days later New York's Robert Wagner took the hint, prepared to sidetrack his Anti-Lynching Bill by bringing in the waiting conference report on his Wagner-Steagall Housing Amendment. When that is disposed of, the conference report on the Farm Bill will also be "privileged" over the Anti-Lynching Bill, keeping it off the floor until its sponsors can gracefully withdraw. Thus last week the legislation that the South, by hook, crook, or filibuster, has throttled in Congress for 35 years seemed to be throttled once more...
...greeting to "all the people in the U. S. and throughout the world." One day last week, as the House was rapidly dispensing with its initial daily routine, Representative Dunn rose to ask unanimous consent to address the House for 20 seconds, on the advisability of a wages-&-hours bill...
Novel as this request was, it failed to shock his colleagues who knew that only a few days previous Matthew Anthony Dunn had introduced a bill, solemnly referred to the Ways & Means Committee, to appropriate money to be expended within ten years "to furnish employment and to end poverty in the United States and its possessions." His proposed appropriation...
...President's reasons was pretty well demolished last week by none other than Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations. In hearings on the regular Navy Bill, the biggest in 16 years, he was asked whether the Atlantic Coast could be defended with almost the entire fleet in the Pacific. Looking and speaking like the Navy's No. 1 Admiral, which he is, the Chief of Naval Operations replied frankly: "I can only answer that by saying that in the event of an attack being made on the United States coast on the Atlantic side the fleet...