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First Session of the Seventy-third Congress, March 9, 1933, to June 16, 19331

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

E. Pendleton Herring
E. Pendleton Herring
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Harvard University
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The meeting of the Seventy-third Congress five days after President Roosevelt's inauguration marked the twenty-fifth time in our history that a special session has been called. Critical times have been faced before and remedial measures found, but the hundred days of this session are unparalleled for the speed and discipline with which Congress was brought to face and finish its task, for the political adroitness and firmness of the presidential leadership, and for the extraordinary importance and far-reaching effects of the legislation enacted. With the substantive merits and contents of the measures passed we are not concerned here, but in this session the legislative process is as worthy of consideration as the legislative product.

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American Government and Politics
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American Political Science Review , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 1934 , pp. 65 - 83
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1934

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page 65 note 2 There was one vacancy.

page 69 note 2 These districts, with their representatives, were as follows: (1) Me., N. H., Vt., Mass., R. I., Conn.—Connery; (2) N. Y.—Boylan; (3) Pa., N. J., Del.—Boland; (4) Va., Md., N. C.—Drewry; (5) S. C., Ga., Fla.—Cox; (6) Ala., Miss., La.—Hill; (7) Ky., Tenn., Ark.—Gregory; (8) O., W. Va.—Crane; (9) Mich., Ind.—Larrabee; (10) Wis., I11., Sabath; (11) Mo., Ia., Minn.—Lozier; (12) Kan., Neb., N. D., S. D., Okla.—Hastings; (13) Tex.—Rayburn; (14) Colo., Mon., Ida., Utah, Wyo., Nev., Ariz., N. Mex.—Taylor; (15) Wash., Ore., Cal.—Hill.

page 70 note 3 Minority Floor Leader Snell named a steering committee on March 25 and retained intact his system of chief whip, assistant whips, and “key men” in each delegation. Keeping the steering committee in operation when in the minority was an innovation.

page 71 note 4 A recapitulation of appropriations is omitted for lack of space. For statistics, consult Sen. Doc. 35, 73rd Cong., 1st Sess., pp. 600–602, 672–678.

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