Report Outline
Foreign Relations
Tax Reduction and Reform
Economy in Public Expenditure
Veterans and the Bonus
Agriculture
Transportation
Immigration
Army and Navy
Law Enforcement and Judicial Reform
Departmental Reorganization
Regulatory Legislation
Special Focus
President Coolidge in his annual and special messages to the Sixty Eighth Congress made fifty recommendations for action by the Congress on general legislation. The action taken on all recommendations is set out in the body of this report. Only the major measures are touched upon in the opening summary.
Legislation Enacted
Bills dealing with the following subjects, upon which action was asked by the President, were enacted into law during the Congress.
| Tax revision |
Foreign debt funding |
| Immigration restriction |
Veteran hospitalization |
| Readjustment of freight rates |
River and harbor improvements |
| Navy modernization |
Good Roads |
| Prohibition enforcement |
Reclamation |
| Reform of judicial procedure |
Reforestation |
| Federal prison reform |
Oil pollution of coastal waters |
| Foreign Service reorganization |
Alaskan Fisheries |
Measures Failing with Adjournment
Bills dealing with the following subjects, upon which legislative action was asked in the President's messages, failed with sine die adjournment of the Sixty Eighth Congress at noon March 4.
| Muscle Shoals |
Radio and aviation regulation |
| Departmental reorganization |
Revision of laws |
| Public buildings |
Cape Cod Canal purchase |
| Railroad consolidation |
Department of Education |
| Merchant marine |
Federal Trade Commission procedure |
| Repeal of income tax publicity |
French spoliation claims |
| District of Columbia welfare |
Lynching and negro rights |
| Civil service classification of presidential postmasters and prohibition agents |
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| Congressional Records and Roll Calls |
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Jul. 30, 1956 |
Record of the 84th Congress (Second Session) |
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Aug. 11, 1955 |
Roll Calls in 84th Congress (First Session) |
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Aug. 04, 1955 |
Record of the 84th Congress (First Session) |
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Aug. 23, 1954 |
Roll Calls in 83rd Congress (Second Session) |
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Aug. 21, 1954 |
Record of the 83rd Congress (Second Session) |
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Aug. 05, 1953 |
Roll Calls in 83rd Congress (First Session) |
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Aug. 04, 1953 |
Record of 83rd Congress (First Session) |
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Jul. 14, 1952 |
Roll Calls in the 82nd Congress (Second Session) |
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Jul. 08, 1952 |
Record of the 82nd Congress (Second Session) |
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Oct. 23, 1951 |
Roll Calls in 82nd Congress (First Session) |
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Oct. 22, 1951 |
Record of the 82nd Congress (First Session) |
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Sep. 25, 1950 |
Record Votes in the 81st Congress (Second Session) |
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Sep. 25, 1950 |
Record of the 81st Congress (Second Session) |
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Oct. 21, 1949 |
Record Votes in the 81st Congress (First Session) |
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Oct. 20, 1949 |
Record of the 81st Congress (First Session) |
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Aug. 07, 1948 |
Record Votes in the 80th Congress (Second Session) |
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Aug. 07, 1948 |
Record of the 80th Congress (Second Session) |
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Jul. 30, 1947 |
Record Votes in 80th Congress (January-July, 1947) |
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Jul. 28, 1947 |
Record of the 80th Congress (January-July, 1947) |
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Aug. 03, 1946 |
Roll Calls in 79th Congress (Second Session) |
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Aug. 03, 1946 |
Record of the 79th Congress (Second Session) |
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Dec. 26, 1945 |
Record Votes in the 79th Congress (First Session) |
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Dec. 21, 1945 |
Record of the 79th Congress (First Session) |
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Dec. 20, 1944 |
Record Votes in the 78th Congress (Second Session) |
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Dec. 20, 1944 |
Record of the 78th Congress (Second Session) |
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Dec. 15, 1943 |
Record Votes in the 78th Congress (First Session) |
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Dec. 15, 1943 |
Record of the 78th Congress (First Session) |
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Dec. 23, 1942 |
Record Votes in the 77th Congress (Second Session) |
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Dec. 15, 1942 |
Record of the 77th Congress (Second Session) |
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Dec. 15, 1941 |
Record Votes in the 77Th Congress (First Session) |
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Dec. 15, 1941 |
Record of the 77th Congress |
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Dec. 23, 1940 |
Record Votes in the 76th Congress (Second and Third Sessions) |
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Jul. 01, 1940 |
Record of the 76th Congress |
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Aug. 07, 1939 |
Record Votes in the 76th Congress (First Session) |
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Aug. 07, 1939 |
Record of the 76th Congress (First Session) |
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Jun. 16, 1938 |
Record Votes in the 75th Congress (Second and Third Sessions) |
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Jun. 16, 1938 |
Record of the 75th Congress |
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Aug. 22, 1937 |
Record Votes in the 75th Congress |
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Aug. 22, 1937 |
Record of the 75th Congress |
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Jun. 22, 1936 |
Record Votes in the 74th Congress, Second Session |
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Jun. 22, 1936 |
Record of the 74th Congress, Second Session |
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Aug. 27, 1935 |
Record of the Seventy-Fourth Congress, First Session |
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Jun. 19, 1934 |
Record of the Seventy-Third Congress, Second Session |
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Jun. 16, 1933 |
Record of the Seventy-Third Congress First (Special) Session |
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Mar. 04, 1933 |
Record of the Seventy-Second Congress |
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Jul. 16, 1932 |
Record of the Seventy-Second Congress, First Session |
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Jun. 30, 1932 |
Record Votes in the Seventy-Second Congress |
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Mar. 04, 1931 |
Record of the Seventy-First Congress |
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Mar. 04, 1929 |
Legislative Record of the Seventieth Congress |
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May 29, 1928 |
Legislative Record of the Seventieth Congress (First Session) |
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Mar. 31, 1927 |
Legislative Record of the Sixty-Ninth Congress |
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Mar. 04, 1925 |
Legislative Record of the Sixty Eighth Congress |
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