"The defeat of some eighty administration supporters in November of 1938 meant that the Congress that convened on January 3, 1939, was much more conservative than the Congress that had preceded it. On January 6, 1939, the President sent his first relief message for 1939. He requested that Congress appropriate an additional emergency sum of $875,000,000 so that it would be possible to continue the relief program for the next five months, at the level at which it was then operating. The House Appropriations Committee cut $150,000,000 from the bill and sent it to the House for consideration. A number of efforts were made to increase the appropriation above the figure asked by the President, but these received little support. On January 13, 1939, an effort was made to re- instate the sum of $875 million that had been asked by the President. It was defeated by a teller vote of; 137 to 226. Efforts to secure a roll call vote failed."
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