Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been doing almost incessantly for the past fortnight in the effort to hurry the U. S. Senate to the end of its year's business Vice President Garner was suddenly interrupted late one afternoon last week. On the point of putting through, without debate, a bill to plug income-tax loopholes, the Vice President found himself obliged by Senate rules to give the floor to Lewis Schwellenbach of Washington, who said...
...President, I do not feel that this body, out of fairness to itself, can permit the passage of this important piece of legislation without some consideration. . . . Personally, I should like to have an opportunity to take this bill home tonight and study it. . . . Probably there is not one chance in a hundred that I will have any objection to the bill tomorrow but . . . unless there is a willingness . . . to permit it to go over . . . I feel it will be necessary for me to talk for a considerable length of time upon other subjects...
...rabbit had suddenly run across the Senate floor, Vice President Garner, whose white eyebrows make him look perpetually astonished anyway, could not have looked more surprised. Senator Schwellenbach is one of the New Deal's stanchest upholders. For him to threaten a filibuster against an Administration bill was almost beyond understanding. A stickler for the rules, the Vice President let the bill go over till the next...
...Senator Schwellenbach-whose objection to the manner of the bill's passage was applauded by most of his confreres-had predicted, he found nothing wrong with the bill itself. Next day it passed without objection. The incident nonetheless remained noteworthy. It was the only serious interruption in a week which Congress spent in going over formidable legislative jumps with almost alarming ease. Major bills which were finally enacted...
...Loopholes. That Senator Schwellenbach felt he needed time to study the Tax Loophole Bill last week was by no means unnatural. It is designed to keep the shrewdest tax lawyers in the U. ,S. up long after bedtime, and to make paying taxes, if only on the ground of the effort involved in dodging them, an economical procedure. Major provisions of the bill...