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Quiz #25

 
Although the Social Security Act was signed in August 1935, it was February 1936 before the Social Security Board received its first appropriations to operate the new program. This was because this U.S. Senator filibustered the Social Security appropriation at the end of the 1935 session of Congress. Who is he?
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A. Arthur Vandenberg
B. Robert Wagner
C. John C. Calhoun
D. Huey Long

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