Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point of no quorum. While the roll was being called Huey Long slipped out of the Chamber for brief relief. When he came back he asked for an opportunity to retire gracefully: "Mr. President, I am not anxious to proceed too long. If we can get a unanimous-consent agreement to vote by noon tomorrow on the motion I have made I shall have no objection to voting at that time...
...Does the Senator from Louisiana realize that the new Members of the Senate have determined, after five and one-half months, that we are no longer going to permit the Senator from Louisiana to run the Senate, and we are not going to consent to any unanimous-consent agreement so far as the Senator from Louisiana is concerned...
...going to propound a unanimous-consent agreement, but I am going to say a word by way of parliamentary inquiry, that the Senate recess until n o'clock and vote on the question now before the Senate at 12 o'clock. I would be willing...
Schwellenbach: I hope the Senator from Louisiana realizes that in order to get any unanimous-consent agreement from the Senate he must, in addition to the leaders who have been referred to, get the consent of the new members of the Senate, taking into consideration the fact that within the last half hour each one of them has gone out and drunk three cups of coffee, which will enable them to stay here for another twelve hours while the Senator from Louisiana speaks...
...this point had only begun to unwind. Since the Treaty of Versailles bars Germany from having an effective navy of any sort. His Majesty's Government, while professing themselves willing to capitulate at 35%, asked other naval powers signatory to the Treaty of Versailles if they likewise would consent. Japan consented at once last week. Italy was noncommittal, but France resounded with fury. Once again, Paris assumed. His Majesty's Government were forcing the French Government to incur fresh German wrath and thirst for revenge by upholding the Treaty of Versailles. If it be upheld. Britain remains automatically...