Word: omnibuses
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...swore it would never surrender. The House, through its Speaker, raged and cursed to have its own way. Meanwhile the destitute of the nation trembled in fear lest they in their plight get nothing from a quarrelsome capital. Early this month the House passed (215-to-182) an omnibus relief bill backed by Speaker Garner. Using this bill as a parliamentary frame, the Senate struck out all the House provisions and substituted a measure of its own devised by Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner, New York Democrat. Last week the Senate by an overwhelming but unrecorded vote passed the Wagner bill...
...Passed a $156,000,000 omnibus economy bill as a rider to the Legislative Appropriation bill; sent it to conference...
...Senate's Economy Committee, with President Hoover's aid & counsel, produced an omnibus bill to cut costs by about $238,000,000. The step-by-step shrinking process on the Senate floor: Lost Savings Reason...
...Received from the Appropriations Committee an omnibus bill to effect economies of more than $238,605,000 as part of the Budget-balancing program (the House bill saved only $52,270,000); voted (38-to-27) for a 10% reduction in all Federal wages over $1,000 per year, thereby cutting expenditures an estimated...
...Revised and expanded the House omnibus economy bill...