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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.
On May 27, 1908, the bill passed the House, mostly on a party-line vote of 166–140, with 13 Republicans voting against it and no Democrats voting for it. [1] On May 30, it passed in the Senate with 43 Republicans for the act and five Republicans joining the 17 Democrats against it. President Roosevelt signed the bill that same night. [2]
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 ...
This provision was non-controversial in both the Senate and House.) [6] A House–Senate conference committee approved the House-passed version of the bill. On December 12, the House and Senate both passed the report of the conference committee, sending the legislation to President Roosevelt. [7]
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 ...
Schmitt, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee and grew up in the area affected by nuclear waste, said he was disappointed Hawley’s provision didn’t make it into the final bill but ...
The Democrats greatly increased their majority in the House, and won control of the Senate for the first time since the 65th Congress in 1917. With Franklin D. Roosevelt being sworn in as president on March 4, 1933, this gave the Democrats an overall federal government trifecta, also for the first time since the 65th Congress.