Archive Report
Archive Report
The Seventieth Congress, which met for its first session December 5, 1927, expired by constitutional limitation at noon on March 4, 1929. Daring its two sessions, the Congress placed more than a thousand new laws upon, the statute books. The most important of these were the following:
House | Senate | |||
Measure | Date of passage | Vote | Data of passage | Vote |
Revenue Act of 1928 | 12:15:27 | 366 to 24 | 5:21:28 | * |
Alien Property Settlement Act | 12:20:27 | 223 to 26 | 2:21:28 | * |
Mississippi Flood Control Act | 4:24:28 | 254 to 91 | 3:23:28 | 70 to 0 |
Merchant Marine Act of 1928 | 5:14:28 | * | 5:16:28 | 31 to 20 |
Colorado River (Boulder Dam) Act | 5:25:28 | *(219 to 137)† | 12:14:28 | 65 to 11 |
Fifteen Cruiser Building Program | 3:17:28 | 287 to 57 | 2: 5:29 | 68 to 12 |
One of the outstanding events of the Seventieth Congress was the granting by the Senate of its consent to ratification of the General Pact for ...