Word: session
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special session of the Senate called by President Hoover to confirm his Cabinet appointments was the shortest on record. It lasted only an hour and a half. During that time the nominations of eight members of the new Cabinet were confirmed. The names of the two holdover officers-Andrew William Mellon and James John Davis-had not been submitted by President Hoover. These omissions, and an ancient rancor, caused the Senate to adopt a resolution by Tennessee's loquacious McKellar directing the Judiciary Committee to report: 1) whether any Cabinet member may legally hold office after the expiration...
Leaders of Congress, last week, set afoot preparations for the extra session of Congress called by the President to meet on April...
...Frear of Wisconsin, a former member of the Committee ejected four years ago for having supported the late, great Senator La Follette, was restored to the Committee, to fill a vacancy. The third committee set up was the Rules Committee which will prepare the calendar (agenda) for the next session...
Other measures which are almost certain to come up in the extra session are bills...
Final figures of the appropriations made by Congress in the short session closed last fortnight, reach the sum of $4,633,000,000. Never since the Budget Bureau was set up were its recommendations so far exceeded by appropriations-an excess of some six and a half million dollars. In the previous session of the 70th Congress $4,628,000,000 was appropriated. Total appropriations by the last three Congresses are as follows: 68th Congress (1923-25)-$7,935,000,000 69th Congress (1925-27)-$8,620,000,000 70th Congress...