Whips Quotes
In 1924 Berger was the only Socialist Party congressman, but New York's Fiorello La Guardia, who had been denied the Republican renomination, won reelection as an Independent. The House clerk incorrectly listed La Guardia as a Socialist, and Berger jokingly referred to him as:
“Vote counting” is done in legislative bodies like Congress by the party leadership, often called the “whip”. The purpose is to determine how many votes they will likely get for a particular piece of legislation. It involved determining and predicting how each member of the legislative body will vote for each variation of a bill and each amendment that has been offered. Paxon himself was one of the Congressmen responsible for doing this for the Republicans when he was in the Congress. . See {624235} for more on vote counting.
Paxon himself was one of the ‘whips’ responsible for doing this for the Republicans when he was in the Congress.
