70th Congress (1927-1929)
President: Calvin Coolidge (R-MA)
House Majority Party: Republican
House Majority Seats: 238 out of 435
House Speaker: Rep. Nicholas Longworth (R-OH)
Vice President: Charles Dawes (R-IL)
Senate Majority Party: Republican
Senate Majority Seats: 48 out of 96
Senate Majority Floor Leader: Sen. Charles Curtis (R-KS)
"I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end." - Vice President Charles G. Dawes (above)
Enactments:
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act of 1929
Agriculture Appropriations Act of 1929
Flood Control Act
Jones-White Merchant Marine Act
McSweeney-McNary Act
Revenue Act 1928
Postal Rate Increase
Boulder Canyon Project Act
Naval Construction Act of 1929
Migratory Bird Conservation Act
Military Appropriations
Supplementary Appropriations
Origins Act of 1929
Administration of American Samoa
Kellogg Briand Treaty
Enactments (cont):
Supplementary Appropriations
Origins Act of 1929
Administration of American Samoa
Kellogg Briand Treaty