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| How about a "name that Congress" game? |
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Published: 02/22/2009 Posted On: February 22, 2009 at 5:54 PM By: |
Which Congress does the following passage pertain to? First correct answer receives a GoE pin. :)
" The Speaker of the House read his colleagues a rough draft of the legislation, while the Senate had nothing to work from at all. 'Mr. Speaker,' ______ Republican from Pennsylvania, vainly protested, 'I regret that the membership of the House has had no opportunity to consider or even read this bill. The first opportunity I had to know what this legislation is was when it was read from the Clerk's desk. It is an important banking bill. It is a dictatorship over finance in the United States. It is complete control over the banking system in the United States.'
Senator____________, Republican of Minnesota, had a similar reaction. 'I am supspicious of this railroading of bills through our House of Representatives, and I refuse to vote for a measure unseen and unknown,' he said. Senator _________ wondered at 'the spectacle of the great House of Representatives of the United States of America passing, after a 40-minute debate, a bill its Members never read and never saw, a bill whose author is unknown. the great maority of the Members have been unable to get a minute's time to discuss this bill; we have been refused a roll call; and w have been refused recognition by the Chair.' The bill's passage, he claimed, could 'be accomplished only by rapid procedure, hurried and hectic debate, and a general rush for voting without roll call." Senator__________continued:
I want the RECORD to show that I was, and am, against this bill and this method of procedure; and I believe no good will come out of it for America. We must not abdicate our power to exercise udgment. We must not allow ourselves
to be swept off our feet by hysteria, and we must not let the power of the Executive paralyze our legislative action. If we do, it would be better for us to resign and go home-and save the people the salary they are paying us.
House minority leader______________, Republican from New York, observed that it was 'entirely out of the ordinary to pass legislation in this House tha, as far as I know, is not even in print at the time it is offered.' Unusual though it was, however, he urged the bill's passage anyway:
The house is burning down, and the President of the United States says this is the way to put out the fire. [Applause.] And to me at this time there is only one answer to this question, and that is to give the President what he demands and says is necessary to meet the situation. I do not know that I am in favor of tall the details carried in this bill, but whether I am or not, I am going to give the President of the United States today his way. He is the man responsible, and we must at this time follow his lead. I hope no one on this side of the aisle will object to the consideration of the request. [Applause.]
(appropriate credit will be given the author on 2/22/09~Kathy) |
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To: Kathy Re: How about a "name that Congress" game?
1933, on FDR's Emergency Banking Relief Act
1 Posted On: February 22, 2009 at 8:59 PM By:
To: Kathy
Congressman Lundeen! From back in the day when our elected officials actually stood for something! Well, some of them anyway.
2 Posted On: February 22, 2009 at 9:37 PM By:
To: MTank50
CONGRATULATIONS TO MTank50! The passage comes from a book entitled Who Killed the Constitution, by Thomas E Woods r and Kevin RC Gutzman, 2008. published by Crown Forum, New York, NY. Pages 88-89
I was emailed responses claiming the 111th Congress. A good reason to study history. Email me your mailing address so I can send your pin! Thanks for playing!
Last edited by Kathy on February 23, 2009 at 7:24 AM
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