Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress shall convene at least once every year, on the first Monday in January, unless a different day is appointed by law. (At present although Congressmen are elected in November, their terms do not begin until the following March - four months later-and they actually do not meet, unless a special session is called, until the following December-13 months after election. The proposed amendment would make the terms and first meetings of Congress begin only two months after elections...
...Senate for several days discussed a proposed amendment to the Constitution which would start the terms of the President and of Congressmen in the January following elections instead of two months later in March. Several Senators tried to annex to the proposal amendments to limit Presidents to one term in office so that they would not be tempted to play politics for reelection. The proposal for a single four year term was voted down 70 to 4, and for a single six years term...
...McKenzie bill authorizing the acceptance of Henry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals. ¶ Passed a resolution calling for an investigation of the Shipping Board since the time when it was created. ¶ Passed a resolution asking Attorney General Daugherty for the names of the two Congressmen supposed to be implicated in the Veterans Bureau fraud...
...action should be taken, and mentioned that two members of Congress were accused of taking various sums of money, presumably as bribes for their influence. The House of Representatives (became agitated. A resolution was proposed directing the Attorney General to furnish the House with the names of the two Congressmen involved and the charges against them. Representative Longworth, Republican Floor Leader, exclaimed: "The discussion of this subject revolts me. ... In either case, by passing this resolution we will have done the one thing that men of honor ought to do when the membership and the honor of their body...
This is the text of a bill which 40 Representatives sent to all the other Congressmen, inviting them to sign so that 40 or more identical bills could be introduced in the House on the same day. Ten of the recipients complied immediately so that the bill will be presented by 50 members. Of the 50, 16 are from New York, and all but six are from east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio. If the bill is to have 50 supporters, it will lack just 168 votes of a majority in the House...