Senator Pat McCarran, Nevada Democrat, (left), receives congratulations from Senator Frederick Steiwer, Oregon Republican, on March 29, 1934 on the speed with which he raced from to Washington to vote against President Franklin Roosevelt's veto of increased veterans benefits and federal salaries. Underestimating the time senators would talk before voting McCarran made the last stage of the journey by plane and then had to wait hours before balloting. (AP Photo)