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Other early New Deal programs which received some support from conservative Republicans included the [[Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933]].<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/73-1/h7 TO PASS H.R. 3835 (P.L. 10) TO RELIEVE THE EXISTING NATIONAL ECONOMIC EMERGENCY BY INCREASING AGRICULTURAL PURCHASING POWER, TO RAISE REVENUE FOR EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSES INCURRED BY REASON OF SUCH EMERGENCY, TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY RELIEF WITH RESPECT TO AGRICULTURAL INDEBTEDNESS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORDERLY LIQUIDATION OF JOINT-STOCK LAND, BANKS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved October 16, 2021.</ref> However, many quickly came to reject the increasing [[liberalism]], bureaucracy, and totalitarianism of the programs, and the opposition solidified during the era of the Second New Deal.
Other early New Deal programs which received some support from conservative Republicans included the [[Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933]].<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/73-1/h7 TO PASS H.R. 3835 (P.L. 10) TO RELIEVE THE EXISTING NATIONAL ECONOMIC EMERGENCY BY INCREASING AGRICULTURAL PURCHASING POWER, TO RAISE REVENUE FOR EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSES INCURRED BY REASON OF SUCH EMERGENCY, TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY RELIEF WITH RESPECT TO AGRICULTURAL INDEBTEDNESS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORDERLY LIQUIDATION OF JOINT-STOCK LAND, BANKS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved October 16, 2021.</ref> However, many quickly came to reject the increasing [[liberalism]], bureaucracy, and totalitarianism of the programs, and the opposition solidified during the era of the Second New Deal.
The political power of the Old Right solidified in the wake of the 1937 [[court packing]] scheme. President Roosevelt, irritated over rulings by the [[United States Supreme Court]] striking down key [[New Deal]] legislation, sought to increase the number of total justices on the Court by introducing the Judiciary Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 so he could appoint stalwart allies of his liberal agenda. Republican senator [[Arthur H. Vandenberg]] organized the Conservative Coalition in soundly defeating the vain power-grab scheme,<ref>[https://www.fjc.gov/sites/default/files/2014/Debates-Federal-Judiciary-Vol-II.pdf Debates on the Federal Judiciary: A Documentary History]. ''Federal Judiciary Center''. Retrieved October 16, 2021.</ref> with the U.S. Senate voting 70–20 to recommit the bill to committee.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/75-1/s42 TO RECOMMIT TO THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT. S. 1392, A BILL TO REORGANIZE THE JUDICIARY BRANCH.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 29, 2021.</ref>
The political power of the Old Right solidified in the wake of the 1937 [[court packing]] scheme. President Roosevelt, irritated over rulings by the [[United States Supreme Court]] striking down key [[New Deal]] legislation, sought to increase the number of total justices on the Court by introducing the Judiciary Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 so he could appoint stalwart allies of his liberal agenda.
Republican senator [[Arthur H. Vandenberg]] organized the Conservative Coalition in soundly defeating the vain power-grab scheme,<ref>[https://www.fjc.gov/sites/default/files/2014/Debates-Federal-Judiciary-Vol-II.pdf Debates on the Federal Judiciary: A Documentary History]. ''Federal Judiciary Center''. Retrieved October 16, 2021.</ref> with the U.S. Senate voting 70–20 to recommit the bill to committee.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/75-1/s42 TO RECOMMIT TO THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT. S. 1392, A BILL TO REORGANIZE THE JUDICIARY BRANCH.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 29, 2021.</ref> The U.S. House, while refusing to pass the Judiciary Procedures Reform Bill,<ref>Fascinating Politics (April 28, 2021). [https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2021/04/28/the-court-packing-episode/ The Court Packing Episode]. ''Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History''. Retrieved October 16, 2021.</ref> managed to pass a substitute bill which provided further incentives for the retirement of Supreme Court justices for Roosevelt to thus replace.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/75-1/h11 TO PASS H. R. 2518, (P. A. 10), A BILL PROVIDING FOR THE RETIREMENT OF JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved October 16, 2021.</ref>
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