Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House. Waiting for their own Farm Bill last week, House members had nothing to do except to go on listening to oratory on subjects ranging from neutrality to Social Security. Liveliest altercation of the week was caused by Labor Committee Chairman Mary Norton's attempt to coax the Wages & Hours Bill out of the Rules Committee where it has reposed since last August with a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. When Majority Leader Sam Rayburn announced that he had signed the petition, urged his confreres to do likewise, Republican Leader Bertrand Snell was inspired to a dour comment...
Most obvious defect of the bill was that it made no provision for raising the money for the payments it authorized to farmers who observed crop restrictions, despite the fact that the President last week reiterated his insistence that provisions for raising any necessary funds above the $500,000,000 now allotted for crop control be included in the bill. Another weakness of the bill was that the House Agriculture Committee was known to be drafting a bill with which it promised to be exceedingly difficult to combine the Senate's measure in conference after passing it. Third...
Vandenberg: "That is a very noble sentiment to which I might subscribe. I should also say that a member of the Senate can scarcely vote intelligently upon this bill when he does not know what he is authorizing except 'such sums as are necessary.' As are necessary for what? . . . What sums are necessary? Is it a billion or two billion dollars...
...objected on the grounds that "Congress should get down to work." By a minority of one, Representative Ralph Edwin Church thus forced the House to meet the following three days of its first week, despite the fact that, with no farm, tax, wage & hour, reorganization or regional planning bill to consider, there was no work for its members to do. Consequence of this move on the part of Representative Church had been a burst of publicity far exceeding any he had ever received before in his four years in the House...
...already sensibly adjourned, Sam Rayburn proposed that the House adjourn until two days later. Instantly, Illinois' Church, still insistent that the House keep its nose to the grindstone, was on his feet to ask whether it was true that there would be no action on the Tax Bill till the regular session...