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... issue . It was President Woodrow Wilson in 1917 who said : The Senate of the United States is the only legislative body in the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action . A little group of willful men , representing ...
... issue . It was President Woodrow Wilson in 1917 who said : The Senate of the United States is the only legislative body in the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action . A little group of willful men , representing ...
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... issue with fair and just considerations of the questions involved . The Underwood proposal , far more drastic than propose , had 34 votes in favor to 41 against . It is my sincere belief that there is no threat to legitimate debate and ...
... issue with fair and just considerations of the questions involved . The Underwood proposal , far more drastic than propose , had 34 votes in favor to 41 against . It is my sincere belief that there is no threat to legitimate debate and ...
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... issue ? Senator SALTONSTALL . Exactly . However , as I stated , there are perfectly proper parliamentary ways and means to avoid the cloture rule from being put into operation . It can only be put into opera- tion : first , if the ...
... issue ? Senator SALTONSTALL . Exactly . However , as I stated , there are perfectly proper parliamentary ways and means to avoid the cloture rule from being put into operation . It can only be put into opera- tion : first , if the ...
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... issue by a vote . I sincerely believe that the great majority of the people of our country want our Senate to con- tinue as an open forum , but want it to be able , under its own rules , to act when action is required by at least a ...
... issue by a vote . I sincerely believe that the great majority of the people of our country want our Senate to con- tinue as an open forum , but want it to be able , under its own rules , to act when action is required by at least a ...
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... issue that it doesn't take a majority , that the old two - thirds rule should prevail , it should be that unanimous . That is the one reason we protect the treaty rights , because we feel that the Senate should be so harmonious that ...
... issue that it doesn't take a majority , that the old two - thirds rule should prevail , it should be that unanimous . That is the one reason we protect the treaty rights , because we feel that the Senate should be so harmonious that ...
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Page 118 - Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
Page 118 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated...
Page 4 - Congress, to employ such clerical and other assistants, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable.
Page 53 - An act to provide for the performance of the duties of the office of President in case of the removal, death, resignation, or inability both of the President and Vice President...
Page 118 - I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
Page 4 - For the purposes of this resolution the committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such...
Page 5 - If at any time a motion, signed by sixteen senators, to bring to a close the debate upon any pending measure is presented to the senate, the presiding officer shall at once state the motion to the senate, and one hour after the senate meets on the following calendar day but one, he shall lay the motion before the senate and direct that the secretary call the roll, and, upon the ascertainment that a quorum is present, the presiding officer shall, without debate, submit to the senate by an aye-and-nay...
Page 6 - Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Attorney General, Postmaster General, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Labor.
Page 75 - Senate, and one hour after the Senate meets, on the following calendar day but one, he shall lay the motion before the Senate and direct that the Secretary call the roll, and, upon the ascertainment that a quorum is present, the presiding officer shall, without debate, submit to the Senate by an aye-and-nay vote the question : "Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be brought to a close?
Page 22 - That it is the sense of the Congress that the public debt shall be increased in an amount equal to the amount by which the estimated expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year exceed the estimated receipts, such amount being $ ." HEARINGS AND REPORTS BT APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEES SEC.