Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (216-10-182) a bill backed by Speaker Garner providing for a $2,290,000,000 relief and public works program; sent it to the Senate...
Earlier in the week the House, gagged by a rigid rule against amendments, passed (216-to-182) the $2,290,000,000 relief bill which Speaker Garner sponsored and President Hoover denounced as "pork."* It provided $100,000,000 as "mercy money" for direct relief, $1,000,000,000 in R. F. C. loans, the balance for a gigantic public building program throughout the land financed by U. S. bonds. Typical of the Republican opposition to this measure was a jingle recited on the floor by New York's Clarke...
...House ranted and raged because it was asked to accept a revenue bill which looked much more like the Senate's measure than its own. But it finally accepted. So did the Senate. Signed by Speaker Garner and Vice President Curtis. H. R. 10236, An Act to Provide Revenue, Equalize Taxation and for other purposes, was .rushed to the White House for President Hoover's signature. After six turbulent months Congress had completed its major task of the session. If followed by a real economy bill and no emergency bills without their own revenue features, the tax bill...
...Hint of Ham" While cities were begging for Federal aid and Henry Ford was preaching back-to-the-soil, Congress was grappling doggedly with the question of relief legislation. Before the House Ways & Means Committee lay Speaker Garner's three-pronged proposal to pitchfork the country up to better times: 1) a billion dollars for the R. F. C. to loan to all-comers; 2) a hundred million of what he called "mercy money" for the President to give away; 3) about a billion and a quarter's worth of public works. Speaker Garner appeared before the committee to declare...
Ignoring Administration criticism, the Ways & Means Committee favorably reported the Garner measure by a strict party vote. All Democrats found themselves bound to support the bill after a stormy party caucus had ratified it (123-to-18). Mayor Murphy sped to Washington with the resolutions adopted at the Detroit conference as the final impetus to put through the House this first piece of wholesale Federal relief...