71st Congress (1929-1931)
President: Herbert Hoover (R-CA)
House Majority Party: Republican
House Majority Seats: 270 out of 435
House Speaker: Rep. Nicholas Longworth (R-OH)
Vice President: Charles Curtis (R-KS)
Senate Majority Party: Republican
Senate Majority Seats: 56 out of 96
Senate Majority Floor Leader: Sen. James E. Watson (R-IN)
Above: Senator Reed Smoot (R-UT), co-sponsor of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
Enactments:
Legislative Appropriations Act of 1929
Agricultural Marketing Act
Census and Reapportionment Act of 1929
Revenue Act 1929
Airmail Act
NIH established
Agricultural Appropriations Act of 1930
War Pensions
Legislative Appropriations Act of 1930
Smoot Hawley Tariff
Federal Power Commission Reorganization
Enactments (cont):
Rivers and Harbors Act
WW Vets Act
Consolidation Act
Supplemental Appropriations Act
Employment Stabilization
Department of the Interior Appropriations Act
Legislative Appropriations Act of 1932
Agriculture Appropriations Act of 1932
Adoption of National Anthem
Muscle Shoals Dam Act of 1931