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Designated Maine's Hale as chairman of the Appropriations Committee vice Washington's Jones, deceased, and California's "Lame Duck" Shortridge as chairman of Naval Affairs, vice Senator Hale...
Guffawed when Democratic Leader Robinson referred to the "death" of Republican Leader Watson instead of Colorado's Waterman. Said Lame Duck Watson: "I'm just politically dead...
...Later the House will vote on a beer bill and perhaps knock together a special revenue measure to balance the Budget. If it gets that much done in the next two and one-half months it will pat itself on the back and think it has established a "lame duck" record...
...requiring all Congressional districts to be "contiguous, compact and of approximately equal population." The absence of such a provision in the present law compelled the Supreme Court last October to sustain gerrymandering in Mississippi's redistricting. ¶ Heard its first farewell speech from Georgia's "Lame Duck" Lankford. ¶ Passed District of Columbia bills to close local barber shops one day per week and to allow Capitol attaches Congressional automobile tags. ¶ Received from the Appropriations Committee the first supply bill-Treasury & Post Office. Its total, $961,416,597, had been cut $32,912,304 under President Hoover...
What may be the last "lame duck" session of Congress in U. S. history opened a three-month sitting last week.* Under a bright December sun the Capitol gleamed whiter than usual after a bath by the local fire department. When Speaker Garner called the 72nd House to order to take up the nation's business, on its rolls were still 144 members whom the People had rejected as law-makers on Nov. 8. Lame ducks in the Senate numbered 14. Prime job of the session: enactment of eleven bills appropriating more than four billion dollars for next year...