Above: Rep. Jeannette Rankin (R-MT).
65th Congress (1917-1919)
President: Woodrow Wilson (D-NJ)
House Majority Party: Democrat
House Majority Seats: 217 out of 435
House Speaker: Rep. James Beauchamp ("Champ") Clark (D-MO)
Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall (D-IN)
Senate Majority Party: Democrat
Senate Majority Seats: 54 out of 96
Senate Majority Floor Leader: Sen. Thomas S. Martin (D-VA)
Enactments:
Liberty Loan Act
Selective Service Act
Agricultural Distribution Act
Lever Food and Fuel Control Act
Revenue Act 1917
Trading With the Enemy Act
Standard Time Act of 1918 PDF | .docx
War Finance Corporation Act
Export Trade Act
Enactments (cont):
Sabotage Act
Overman Act
Vocational Rehabilitation
Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918
Agriculture Appropriations Act of 1918
Agricultural Distribution Enactment Act
Revenue Act of 1919
Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriations Act of 1919
War with Austria-Hungary
War with Germany