Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long: I want to find out how popular I am in this body. [Laughter.] I want to know. If it should get back to Louisiana that the Senators are sitting here this evening listening to me, after I had been speaking for seven hours- Arizona's Ashurst: Is it not true that the Senator's present popularity is about as great as that of a cuckoo clock in a boys' dormitory at 3 o'clock in the morning...
Wisconsin's LaFollette: Mr. President, I make the point of order that the Senator from Louisiana cannot yield except for a question...
...Does the Senator from Louisiana realize that those of us who are new Members of the Senate, and who for the last six months have sat back here in the last row and seen every effort on the part of the Congress to do something for the people of this country who are suffering from unemployment blocked and stifled by the Senator from Louisiana, are going to sit in the Senate tonight and tomorrow and all this week and from now on until something is done to stop the Senator from Louisiana from controlling the Senate? I submit that question...
...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...
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...