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The second setback occurred in the Senate Judiciary Committee action that day on Roosevelt's court reform bill. [92] First, an attempt at a compromise amendment which would have allowed the creation of only two additional seats was defeated 10–8. [92] Next, a motion to report the bill favorably to the floor of the Senate also failed 10–8. [92]
James F. Byrnes, who helped plan the bill's 1939 legislative strategy, and successfully shepherded it through the US Senate. Roosevelt reintroduced the bill in the next Congress. Roosevelt was very active in the House and Senate primaries, working to "purge" the Democratic Party of Southern conservatives who had opposed the New Deal.
Roosevelt pursued a legislative agenda to enact his second bill of rights by lending Executive Branch personnel to key Senate committees. This tactic, effectively a blending of powers, produced mixed results and generated a backlash from Congress which resulted in passage of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. This Act provided funding ...
The Senate Committee on Roads amended the Roosevelt bill substantially. It reduced total federal funding for highways to $450 million a year from $650 million a year; required a 50 percent funding match from states, instead of the proposed 40 percent; and set funding for urban roads and secondary/feeder roads at $125 million a year each ...
House agreed to Senate amendment on July 11, 1940 (Agreed) Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 19, 1940 The Two-Ocean Navy Act , also known as the Vinson–Walsh Act , was a United States law enacted on July 19, 1940, and named for Carl Vinson and David I. Walsh , who chaired the Naval Affairs Committee in the House and ...
Congress had sustained Roosevelt's previous veto of an earlier version of the bill in 1935, called the Patman Greenback Bonus Bill. The President addressed a joint session of Congress to deliver his veto message. As he concluded his speech, he handed the unsigned bill to the Speaker of the House. Within an hour the House overrode the veto by a ...
In a speech on the Senate floor earlier in the week, Cassidy, a Republican, called on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York to schedule a vote on the measure. Schumer, a Democrat and co ...
In 1937 the Senate opposed Roosevelt's "court packing" plan and successfully called for reduced deficits. In its early history, the Senate majority leader had few formal powers. But in 1937, the rule giving majority leader right of first recognition was created.