"Well, isn't this a billion dollar country?"

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Members of the United States House of RepresentativesRepublican Party (United States) politiciansUnited States Secretaries of the TreasuryGovernors of Ohio
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Responding to Democrat critics who labelled the 51st Congress (March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1891) a "Billion Dollar" Congress. Reported in Henry L. Stoddard, As I Knew Them (1927), ch. 21