Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facto political party in America was founded on the floor of the Senate tonight . . . We shall see whether the future voting record in the Senate does not also indicate that in a large measure this coalition predicts what will happen to great pieces of social legislation in the 81st Congress...
Harry Truman thought that the country, in electing him, had given Congress a mandate to enact his program. Last week's events demonstrated that he had another think coming; a good many Congressmen, who represented historic regional interests and prejudices, and a common fear of the extremes in Harry Truman's campaign promises, disagreed. They thought that they also had a "mandate" from the voters (some of them had gotten more votes than Harry Truman in their areas). "The accomplishments of this Congress," said Ohio's Robert Taft, "will not be zero, though they will look like...
...whole, the President said, most of the members of Congress are fundamentally all right. Sometimes they get a little excited. But he pointed out that Congress had been delayed almost a month by the Inauguration, that it had just gotten started...
Representative Rankin's pension plan for veterans of the two World Wars is now in the lap of a highly nervous Congress. This plan, which would give every veteran $90 a month beginning with his sixty-fifth year, is probably the most ambitious special interest plunge into the federal treasury ever attempted by mortal man. The Budget Bureau, in quivering tones, has reported that Mr. Rankin's boondoggle would cost the country something like $125,000,000,000 by the year...
...House failed two days ago in an attempt to block veterans of World War II from the benefits. The Senate may be able to slice further into Rankin's proposal or even smother it in a committee. But the chances that Mr. Rankin can pry something substantial out of Congress seem about as reasonable as the chances that he can be blocked. Even if he is only partially successful, there would be less money for housing, social security, and other items that are necessary for the whole nation--not just veterans. And if Rankin gets most of what he wants...