Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
Early in 2021 the relationship between the Centrão and the government was strengthened further when Bolsonaro backed the bloc’s candidates for the presidencies of both houses of Congress. In the run-up to these internal elections the government released more than R$3bn for lawmakers to spend on public works in their districts. Government opponents
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the state’s request was entirely unprecedented. Not only had the state requested signatures that had already been verified, but they did so for a validated petition, not a rejected petition, which are typically the basis of fraud investigations.
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The major domestic accomplishment of the Eightieth Congress was a Labor-Management Relations Act, the “Taft-Hartley Law,” which union leaders called the “slave labor law.”
Robert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
As Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was to write: The Founding Fathers appear to have envisaged the treaty-making process as a genuine exercise in concurrent authority, in which the President and Senate would collaborate at all stages.… One third plus one of the senators … retained the power of life and death over the treaties.