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...Passed (31640-67) the legislative appropriation bill, after attaching a $30,000,000 omnibus economy rider; sent it to the Senate...
Government Clerks. Luther Stewart and Gertrude McNally lobby for the National Federation of Federal Employes. They managed to beat a real pay cut in the House omnibus economy bill...
...Debated the omnibus economy bill...
...Damndest Rule' To cut costs the House was presented last week with an omnibus bill into which a special committee had dumped a quarter-billion dollars worth of proposed chips and shavings from the government's lumber yard. Many of its items were approved by President Hoover as part of his "national economy program." As a non-partisan measure it was offered as a "rider" to the legislative appropriation bill...
Feet to Fire. With the House politically set against all serious economy, its leaders feared that the tattered omnibus bill would, in the end, produce savings of only $50,000,000, far short of the amount required to balance the Budget even with a realistic tax bill. Greatly provoked was Speaker Garner at the Democratic runaway from the recommendations of his economy committee. He vowed that roll call votes would later be taken on all important changes "to put the members' feet to the fire in the matter of economy...