Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress Thanked...
...call your attention to quite a gross misstatement of facts, wherein you state, in article on first page of your magazine of May 28, under the caption of "Signed & Consigned" that the members of the Legislature, now in session, had defeated a resolution of thanks to the U. S. Congress...
...attach herewith copy of resolution which was unanimously adopted by the [Louisiana] Senate and concurred in by the House of Representatives, and a copy sent to the President of the United States and members of Congress...
...tenth day passed without the President's signing the Muscle Shoals bill. Ten years had passed while the bill was getting through Congress. The "pocket" method of vetoing saves a President the trouble, or embarrassment, of saying why he disapproves. Presumably, President Coolidge "pocketed" the Muscle Shoals bill because it called for Federal operation of the Government's Wartime power-plant on the Tennessee River and for Federal manufacture of fixed nitrogen, which is used in fertilizer and explosives. President Coolidge had urged that the Government lease or sell the power plant and let private interests make power...
Senator Norris talked seriously of having the Muscle Shoals act declared law despite its "pocketing." His argument hinged upon the nature of the adjournment Congress has taken. If it is a thoroughgoing adjournment in the Constitutional sense of the word, then the bill is dead. But if it could be shown that the adjournment is merely ad interim, between sessions of the Seventieth Congress, then perhaps the President's failure to veto will have allowed the bill to become law. On this point the Constitution simply says...