74th United States Congress

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Contents

0.1 Dates of Sessions

1 Notable events
2 Legislation
3 Party summary

3.1 Senate
3.2 House

4 Officers

4.1 Senate
4.2 House of Representatives

5 Members

5.1 Senate
5.2 House

6 Employees

6.1 Senate
6.2 House

7 Sources

Dates of Sessions

1935-1936

First session: January 3, 1935 to August 26, 1935
Second session: January 3, 1936 to June 20, 1936

This was the first Congress to take place entirely under the provisions of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which changed the date for convening and for starting sessions to January 3.

Notable events

July 1, 1935: Charles Watkins was appointed as the first officially recognised Parlimentarian.[link]

Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long gave the second longest filibuster speech in Senate history up to that time, 15 hours and 30 minutes, on June 12th-13th, 1935 to retain a provision, opposed by President Franklin Roosevelt, requiring Senate confirmation for the National Recovery Administration's senior employees. Called by nature, Long's filibuster was finally defeated after he "headed" for the head. Two days later he was back and ready to fight for a liberalization of what would become known as the Social Security Act. [link] (The longest filibuster in Senate history was given by US senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina who spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes to keep the US Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957 in August. In 1964, a group of southern senators opposing the passage of another civil rights bill — the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — took turns talking for 75 days. [link])

Legislation

Social Security Act, including Aid to Dependent Children, Old Age Pension Act PL 74-271 (ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620, #redirect [[Template:UnitedStatesCode]] et seq)[link]
Robinson Patman Act (#redirect [[Template:UnitedStatesCode]])
Rural Electrification Act
Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act
Commodities Exchange Act

Party summary

Senate

Party	Members
Democrats	69
Republicans	25
Farmer-Labor	1
Progressive	1
Total	96

House

Party	Members
Democrats	322
Republicans	103
Progressive	7
Farmer-Labor	3
Total	435

Also 2 Delegates, 3 Resident Commissioners

Officers

Senate

House of Representatives

Speaker of the House:
*Joseph W. Byrns (D-Tennessee) Died June 4, 1936.
*William B. Bankhead (D-Alabama) Elected June 4, 1936.
House Majority Leader:
*William B. Bankhead (D-Alabama) Elected Speaker June 4, 1936.
*John J. O’Connor (D-New York)
House Minority Leader: Bertrand H. Snell (R-New York)
House Democratic Whip: Patrick J. Boland (D-Pennsylvania)
House Republican Whip: Harry L. Englebright (R-California)
House Democratic Caucus Chairman: Edward T. Taylor (D-Colorado)
House Republican Conference Chairman: Frederick R. Lehlbach (R-New Jersey)

Members

Senate

House

Employees

Senate

Senate Parlimentarian [link]: Charles Watkins

House

Clerk of the House: South Trimble
Doorkeeper of the House: Joseph J. Sinnott
Postmaster of the House: Finis E. Scott
Sergeant at Arms: Kenneth Romney
Chaplain of the House: Rev. James Shera Montgomery - Methodist

Sources

[Party divisions]

List of United States Congresses (and years begun)
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31 (1849) • 32 (1851) • 33 (1853) • 34 (1855) • 35 (1857) • 36 (1859) • 37 (1861) • 38 (1863) • 39 (1865) • 40 (1867)
41 (1869) • 42 (1871) • 43 (1873) • 44 (1875) • 45 (1877) • 46 (1879) • 47 (1881) • 48 (1883) • 49 (1885) • 50 (1887)
51 (1889) • 52 (1891) • 53 (1893) • 54 (1895) • 55 (1897) • 56 (1899) • 57 (1901) • 58 (1903) • 59 (1905) • 60 (1907)
61 (1909) • 62 (1911) • 63 (1913) • 64 (1915) • 65 (1917) • 66 (1919) • 67 (1921) • 68 (1923) • 69 (1925) • 70 (1927)
71 (1929) • 72 (1931) • 73 (1933) • 74 (1935) • 75 (1937) • 76 (1939) • 77 (1941) • 78 (1943) • 79 (1945) • 80 (1947)
81 (1949) • 82 (1951) • 83 (1953) • 84 (1955) • 85 (1957) • 86 (1959) • 87 (1961) • 88 (1963) • 89 (1965) • 90 (1967)
91 (1969) • 92 (1971) • 93 (1973) • 94 (1975) • 95 (1977) • 96 (1979) • 97 (1981) • 98 (1983) • 99 (1985) • 100 (1987)
101 (1989) • 102 (1991) • 103 (1993) • 104 (1995) • 105 (1997) • 106 (1999) • 107 (2001) • 108 (2003) • 109 (2005) • 110 (2007)
111 (2009) • 112 (2011) • 113 (2013)

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