Congressional Speeches

Congressional Speeches

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This collection features speeches made on the floor of the United States House of Representatives and Senate by Vermont Congressmen. Topics covered include the environment, education, agriculture, World War II and selective service, the Mexican...
Show moreThis collection features speeches made on the floor of the United States House of Representatives and Senate by Vermont Congressmen. Topics covered include the environment, education, agriculture, World War II and selective service, the Mexican War, the tariff and international trade, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction. The speeches date from 1812 to the present and a wide variety of Congressmen are represented.
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Title: Congressional Speeches
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Description: This collection features speeches made on the floor of the United States House of Representatives and Senate by Vermont Congressmen. Topics covered include the environment, education, agriculture, World War II and selective service, the Mexican War, the tariff and international trade, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction. The speeches date from 1812 to the present and a wide variety of Congressmen are represented.
Publisher: University of Vermont Libraries, Center for Digital Initiatives
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Title: Activities of Senator McCarthy -- The World Crisis
Date Created: March 9, 1954

Title: An address of members of the House of representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain.
Date Created: 1812
Description: Signed by George Sullivan and 33 other Federalist members.

Title: Agricultural experiment stations : remarks of William W. Grout, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, February 25, 1887.
Date Created: 1887-02-25

Title: America's Credibility: The Underpinning Of An Effective Foreign Policy
Date Created: April 15, 2004
Description: Address of Senator Patrick Leahy School For International Training Brattleboro, Vermont April 15, 2004

Title: American labor : speech of Hon. H. Henry Powers, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, January 15, 1894, on the Wilson tariff bill.
Date Created: 1894-01-15

Title: An Answer to Misleading Charges About the Civil Rights Bill
Date Created: April 25, 1964

Title: The blunders of a Democratic political tariff, and a British income tax : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, April 18, 1894.
Date Created: 1894-04-18

Title: Bread for our starving countrymen : speech of Hon. F. E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, March 19, 1867.
Date Created: 1867-03-19
Description: "On Senate joint resolution no. 16, for the relief of the destitute in the southern and southwestern states."

Title: The California question : speech of Hon. James Meacham, of Vermont in the House of Representatives, May 14, 1850.
Date Created: 1850-05-14

Title: Colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morril, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, Saturday, June 14, 1890.
Date Created: 1890

Title: The compromise bill : speech of Hon. W. Upham, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, July 26, 1848, on the bill reported from the Select Committee to establish Territorial Governments in Oregon, New Mexico, and California.
Date Created: 1848-07-26

Title: The condition of Cuba. It is not peace, it is not war : speech of the Hon. Redfield Proctor in the Senate of the United States, Thursday, March 17, 1898.
Date Created: 1898-03-17

Title: The conduct of Captain Brownell, charged with the torture of the priest Augustine : speeches of Hon. Redfield Proctor, of Vermont, and Hon. J. H. Berry, of Arkansas, in the Senate of the United States, January 28 and February 2, 1903.
Date Created: 1903

Title: Congressional record : proceedings and debates of the 85th congress, second session : the Middle East situation : speeches of Hon. Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont in the Senate of the United States
Date Created: 1958

Title: Defense of the clergy : speech of Hon. James Meacham, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, May 17, 1854.
Date Created: 1854-05-17

Title: Educational fund : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, April 26, 1876.
Date Created: 1876-04-26

Title: Environmental speeches of the Honorable Robert T. Stafford, United States Senator from the state of Vermont : delivered in the Senate of the United States, September-October 1988.
Date Created: 1988

Title: The extinction of slavery : speech of Hon. F. E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, January 12, 1865, upon the motion to reconsider the vote by which the House, on the 15th of June last, rejected a joint resolution (S. no. 16)
Date Created: 1865-01-12

Title: Free trade and protective tariffs tested by official statistics : speech of Hon. E.P. Walton, of Vermont, delivered in the House of Representatives, February 7, 1859.
Date Created: 1859-02-07

Title: Freedom of the seas or else : speech of Hon. Charles A. Plumley, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, October 17, 1941.
Date Created: 1941-10-17

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