Archive Report
Archive Report
The Seventieth Congress, which meets for its second session December 3, 1928, will expire by constitutional limitation at noon March 4, 1929 - when the new Congress chosen at the recent election will come into being, and Mr. Hoover will be inaugurated for the ensuing four-year term as President of the United States.
President Coolidge noted in his annual message at the opening of the final session of the Sixty-ninth Congress that “in the present short session no great amount of new legislation is possible” and that a large part of the time would of necessity be consumed in consideration of the regular appropriation bills. This statement applies with even greater force to the coming three-month session. It is unlikely that any new legislative projects ...