Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House he called Speaker Byrns, House Rules Chairman O'Connor, acting Floor Leader Taylor, Ways & Means Chairman Doughton, laid down the political law to them. They told him what he could not expect the House to do. He told them, with considerable desk pounding, what the House was going to do. The Democratic Congress, he assured them knowingly, would not say anything could not be done, if the Democratic President said it had to be done...
...President." "The Senator from Louisiana." The large gilt clock over the Vice President's chair stood at 12:17 p. m. as Huey Pierce Long rose at his front-row desk and took the Senate floor last week. Before the chamber was a resolution to keep the ghost of NRA above ground for another nine months. If the resolution were not passed within four days, even that ghost would disappear and President Roosevelt would be left looking sick and silly. In high good spirits, therefore, Senator Long set out to make the President look sick and silly by talking...
...Senator may talk as long as he can. By yielding to co-operative colleagues for long involved questions or side speeches, he can, under the rules, hold the floor almost indefinitely. Thus, two months ago, when he was filibustering against the anti-lynching bill, Alabama's Senator Bankhead effectively tied up Senate proceedings for a whole afternoon without speaking more than 500 words. Last week, however, it soon became apparent that Senator Long was going to get no assistance or relief from other Senators, was in fact going to be held strictly to the rules. He could yield only...
...Congress of the United States. . . . Are they in Congress today? Are the laws regulating the planting of crops vested in Congress? No!" So Long went on through the Constitution section by section, sentence by sentence, phrase by phrase. An hour later, looking up from the nearly empty floor, he beamed...
...work. Nevada's McCarran, the only Senator who appeared to wish the filibuster to go on, obliged by demanding another quorum, but this time Huey Long did not dare leave the floor for fear of losing his speech-making prerogative. Besides, the galleries were filling up with a new crowd-Washingtonians who preferred listening to the Kingfish to watching the Shriners parade in the rain. Going to the clerk's desk Long snatched up the official list of Senators...