FDR: “The prompt consideration and enactment of this measure is essential to…”

On the recordJune 19, 1940

The prompt consideration and enactment of this measure is essential to the maintenance of our domestic and foreign commerce.

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Democratic · New York

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Request for Passage of a Bill to Provide for Marine War-risk Insurance.

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