Word: recommitted
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...Passed the $326,000,000 naval appropriation bill, after refusing to recommit it for a further...
...Voted (50-10-29) on motion of Tennessee's McKellar to recommit the $124,000,000 appropriation bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce and Labor with instructions to cut its total 10% for economy...
...passage of the bill in the House occurred precisely as the Republican leaders had planned. Their amendments, and only theirs, were adopted. Minority Leader John Nance Garner of Texas, under the rules, was permitted but a single motion. He moved to recommit the bill to the Ways & Means Committee with instructions to eliminate the flexible provision which gave new and enlarged powers to the President to alter duties. This issue was not Mr. Garner's own. It belonged primarily to Republican Congressman James Montgomery Beck of Pennsylvania who last fortnight had flayed the doubtful constitutionality of this provision (TIME...
There were three brief steps in making the bill into an act of Congress. Mr. Green, the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, told the House: "I came back today with the best bill I could get." There was a small minority in opposition which wanted to recommit* the bill because a retroactive reduction was made in last year's estate taxes, but they were prevented from getting their motion before the House because only one motion to recommit is allowed and a Florida member beat them to it with a motion to recommit to have estate taxes entirely...
...best bill that could be got. Senator Fletcher of Florida attacked the bill because estate taxes had been restored in conference. And Senator Neely of West Virginia declared it was a millionaire's bill, and wanted the taxes on admissions and on automobiles entirely stricken out. He moved to recommit the bill. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, made a point of order, that the bill could not be recommitted because the House in passing it had discharged the joint conference committee, ?in short there was no committee to which the bill could be recommitted. Vice President Dawes...