THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jan. 25, 1937

The Senate:

¶ By vote of 74 to 1 passed a bill extending the life of RFC to June 30, 1939; sent it to the House.

The House:

¶ Finished the important business of making committee assignments. The "Third Party Bloc," consisting this year of seven Progressives from Wisconsin, one from California and five Farmer-Laborites from Minnesota, flew into a rage at the Majority for not giving them assignments to important committees as members of a third party. Instead the Majority treated them as "bastard Democrats," assigned them to committees along with other...

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