78th Congress (1943-1945)
President: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D-NY)
House Majority Party: Democrat
House Majority Seats: 222 out of 435
House Speaker: Rep. Sam Rayburn (D-TX)
Vice President: Henry Wallace (D-IA)
Senate Majority Party: Democrat
Senate Majority Seats: 57 out of 96
Senate Majority Floor Leader: Sen. Alben Barkley (D-KY)
"Mr. President, I congratulate the Vice President on the fact that he has an opportunity to break a tie vote, and that having had the opportunity he voted wrong." -- Senator Walter George (D-GA)
Enactments:
First Defense Extension Act
Female Military Physicians Act
Farm Labor Supply Act
Current Tax Payment Act
War Labor Disputes
Legislative and Judicial Branch Appropriations Act of 1943
Women's Army Corps
Agriculture Appropriations Act of 1943
Labor Appropriations Act
Public Health Service
Chinese Exclusion Repeal
Revenue Act 1943
Enactments (cont):
UN Forerunner
Soldier Vote Act
Second Defense Extension Act
Individual Income Tax
Servicemen's Readjustment Act
War Agencies Appropriations Act
War Contract Settlement Act
Surplus Property Act
War Mobilization and Reconversion Act
Increase Congressional Staff
Federal Aid Roads