Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Considered in executive session the nomination of Attorney General Stone to be a Justice of the Supreme Court, but deferred action by sending the nomination back to committee...
Ordinarily, caucuses are not held until, at most, a day or two before a Congress comes in session, when its members have already assembled in Washington. The coming caucus will consist of the Republican members of the present Congress who were re-elected last fall and of the 50-odd Republicans newly elected to serve in that body. The caucus will have three major functions...
...69th Congress several days before it comes into existence (and probably several months before it assembles) has to do with tax reduction. The caucus will choose the Republican majority members of the next Ways and Means Committee. There is a prospect now that Mr. Coolidge will call Congress in session some time during the fall for tax revision. If the members of the Ways and Means Committee are chosen in advance, they can assemble in Washington several weeks before Congress as a whole assembles, and have a tax revision bill ready to report to the House as soon...
...bill will be brought up on February 11 before the Committee on Constitutional Law. This Committee must pass on the bill before it can be put before the Legislature itself. Should this Committee pass favorably on the proposal then it will go before a joint session of the House of Representatives and-the Senate, which is necessary to pass on an amendment...
There is a chance that the verdict of the Committee on Constitutional Law will not be sufficient for the bill to go before the joint session. The Committee on Education also may have to pass on the bill before the Legislature can decide upon it. If this is necessary the Committee on Constitutional Law and the Committee on Education will probably sit in a joint session to consider Mr. 'Bates' proposed amendment...