Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...account of hot weather. If anyone had a good case he pressed for action. In so many words Franklin Roosevelt said that rich men, such as newspaper publishers,* who oppose his tax bill had a weak case, while he had a strong case. Ergo, he pressed for action. Congressmen spend their legislating hours in the air-conditioned Chambers of the House and Senate.† If they were to leave Washington most of them would have to do without any air-conditioning at all, would find temperatures at home as hot as in Washington, if not hotter. Undoubtedly the lobby putting...
Further testimony disclosed that, as everyone already knew, the Power lobby had employed its Constitutional right of petition to influence Congressmen against the bill by letters, telegrams, speeches, broadcasts, advertisements. But no whit of evidence was turned up to prove that Lobbyist Gadsden, descendant of the U. S. Minister to Mexico who negotiated the Gadsden Purchase, had used a single dollar of his funds to purchase votes or otherwise corrupt the Congress...
Dear to the hearts of all Congressmen are their perquisites. Among these are free postage on official letters, free stationery, free clerk hire and (for Senators only) free snuff and free mineral water. Although not really a member of Congress, the Vice President shares most of these, has one extra one of his own?an official automobile. But for 146 years there was one fat Congressional perquisite that no Vice President ever got?travel allowance. Last week Vice President Garner got that perquisite...
Many a Congressional eyebrow went sharply up because no one had expected a new tax bill to be thrust on Congress so late in the session. But if Congressmen were surprised by a tax message at this time, they were more surprised by its contents...
Most befuddling for Congressmen was the question of when the President expected them to act on his tax proposals-now or next year. Only clue in his message was one sentence: "These complicated and difficult questions cannot adequately be debated in the time remaining in the present session of this Congress." Democratic leaders in both houses at first thought he did not mean this year. Radicals insisted he did. Twenty-two Senators headed by Wisconsin's La Follette signed a round robin declaring that Congress should stay in session until the new taxes are enacted. After five days...