Word: patman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bills legislating it had been presented in Congress meanwhile. A bill drawn by Representative Wright Patman of Texas went into the House Ways & Means Committee, gathered dust there. Under the rules, no method of getting it out was possible except: 1) to have the committee formally report it out, or 2) to have the 218 Representatives sign a petition forcing it to the House floor. Mr. Patman circulated such a petition, failed by some 75 signatures to obtain his end. Many a Congressman who disapproved of the bill, afraid of the veterans' vote if he had to oppose...
...matter has already been brought to the attention of Congress by Hon. Wright Patman, a War-veteran, who made an extended speech on this subject on April 3, 1930, in Congress...