Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican caucus in the House voted viva voce, with little dissent, that the Ways and Means Committee should report out a tax reduction bill by Feb. 11, giving it precedence over a bonus bill. The caucus also voted down resolutions directing the Committee necessarily to report a bonus bill...
...soldier bonus bill, now resting quietly on a siding in the Ways and Means Committee, is almost certain to come up for consideration sooner or later. In recognition of this fact, members of the Committee are waiting for a caucus of the House Republicans to determine and to take the responsibility for the time when the bonus bill shall be reported out. Meanwhile conjecture centers chiefly on the question of whether the bill can be passed over the President's expected veto...
...bonus bill may, however, be considered before work on the tax reduction bill is completed. The House Republicans have called a caucus on the bonus question for Jan. 10. Chairman Green of the Ways and Means Committee explained...
Some 50 of the 344 pages of the tax reduction bill were gone over by the Committee before the Christmas recess. The administrative features of the bill will therefore probably have been surveyed by the time of the Republican caucus. Then the question of precedence is likely to be settled finally...
...just opened its winter session. It meets in the caucus room and many of its meetings are more lively than those that pass in Congress itself; for its members have no listening constituents to temper the full force of their ideas. Membership is limited to those "employed around Congress"? that is, to secretaries of Senators, of Representatives and to others such as Kenneth Romney, cashier in the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House. They number some...