Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman had made up his mind. He was helped to it by the attitude of many Congressmen who, having visited ravaged Europe, now saw the necessity of immediate action. One morning last week, the President met his Cabinet. He told them that there had to be a special session of Congress, that he had decided to call it for Nov. 17.* France and Italy could not wait until January...
...Admit It." Any one of those measures would run into varying Republican opposition. The reaction of Republican Congressmen to the special session call was mixed. Only a few hours before the call, Minnesota's Harold Knutson, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, had declared that Congress would limit aid to Europe even under the Marshall Plan to $1 billion next year. Contemplated in the Marshall Plan: some $6 to $7 billion the first year. Said Knutson: "Give them a paddle and then tell 'em-'Go paddle your own canoe...
Because the President had injected what was certainly a political issue and because he had called the session without a by-your-leave, Republicans felt free to declare the session wide open. One of the first issues many of them wanted to take up was tax reduction, which the President had twice vetoed. Said House Majority Leader Charles Halleck: "Tax reduction ... is urgently needed if we are to have increased production...
...Senator Taft pointed out, the President had merely advanced the opening of the second session of the 80th Congress by about six weeks. And Congress, in an election year, would almost certainly be stormy...
Disagreement over the relative merits of the Harlow November "system" and Yale material may be waxing warm by the Thursday before the sixty-fourth meeting between the Blue and Red, but no Entry bull session will outglow the airwaves of WHRV that evening...