Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a conference report on a bill repealing the "Red rider" of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act of 1935 which made it mandatory for the District Board of Education to withhold the salary of any teacher who advocated or explained Communism (TIME, July 13). Sent it to the President...
Rarer than a day in June is the day when the leaders of the House filibuster against an Administration bill. Yet so they did last week, for the House had gone rambunctious and was threatening to run away with the Relief bill. For a long time the House had been getting more impatient with Relief Administrator Hopkins...
...trouble began originally when Representative Woodrum, head of the Appropriations' subcommittee, suggested cutting the President's proposed $1,500,000,000 WPA bill for 1938 to $1,000,000,000. Harry Hopkins, who felt that even the President's figure was too small, declared that 500,000 of WPA's 2,000,000 dolesters would have to be discharged as it was. So the full Appropriations Committee overrode Mr. Woodrum's economy plan...
Last week a new group rose to attack the bill on the floor of the House. Their plaint was not its size but its blanket appropriation of one and a half billions to be spent at the President's and Mr. Hopkins' pleasure. The rebels were led by Joe Starnes who demanded that $55,000,000 be earmarked for flood and drought control; Wilburn Cartwright of McAlester, Okla. who demanded $150,000,000 be earmarked for roads; Alfred Beiter of Williamsville, N. Y., who demanded $300,000,000 be earmarked for Public Works. They in turn...
...afternoon they took the bill, in committee-of-the-whole, and attached their earmarking amendments to it. Two days later Leader Rayburn attempted to pull the Administration forces together and undo the damage. Representative Woodrum, bitter that $500,000,000 should be cut for pork but not for economy, assisted. But the earmarking bloc remained in the saddle. The Administration leaders had to resort to a filibuster to keep the earmarked bill from being rushed to passage. The temper of the House was made manifest when an amendment was adopted limiting any WPA salary to $10,000. No name needed...