Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President by letter: 1) endorsed Golden Rule Sunday to be held Dec. 6; 2) encouraged the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People meeting at Denver...
Charles G. Dawes, Vice President, and Knight errant for reform in the rules of the Senate, traveled into the fastnesses of New Hampshire, home of Senator George Higgins Moses, protagonist of the Senate rules as they are. At Manchester, he jousted in the lists, setting forth his arguments, many of which were rebuttals to his opponents' replies. This was the substance of his argument tor a strict cloture (closure) rule-i.e., a rule that would enable the Senate to stop debate in order to secure a prompt vote...
...Congress (1913-15) the Rivers and Harbors bill was debated 32 days; the Panama Canal bill 30 days; the Federal Trade Commission bill 30 days; the Clayton Act 21 days and then for 9 days more, after it came from conference. As a result of this condition, the present rule for a deferred cloture by a two-thirds vote was adopted (1917. Yet, immediately afterwards, six important appropriation bills were killed by filibuster...
...tends to reduce the number of bills enacted. In the last eight congresses, chiefly because of filibusters, seven extra sessions have been held, which resulted in the passage of 386 bills and 98 public resolutions. Likewise, in the last five Congresses, the House with 435 members, and a cloture rule received 82,632 bills and resolutions and passed 2,931, whereas the Senate with 96 members received 29,332 bills and resolutions and passed 3,113-182 more...
...Cloture results in inadequate consideration of important measures. "I have seen [in the House which has a cloture rule] a measure involving scores of millions of annual expenditure for all time to come put through with only 40 minutes of debate and the time parceled out by the opposing leaders. The founder of this journal [Benjamin Franklin], speaking in the Constitutional Convention, and using words suited to the polite customs of that day, described the Senate as 'the saucer into which the tea of legislation would be poured for cooling before drinking...