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Wagner's concern for the wellbeing of working people continued after he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1926. In 1931 he sponsored a $2 billion public-works program, which President Herbert Hoover signed into law as the Emergency Relief and Reconstruction Act of 1932. After Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Wagner became the Senate's leading advocate of New Deal legislation. In 1933 he sponsored the Federal Emergency Relief Act, worked vigorously for the inclusion of public-works provisions in the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), and was the primary advocate of its provisions supporting the rights of labor to organize and bargain collectively. That same year he became the first head of the National Labor Board. When the NIRA was declared unconstitutional in 1935, it was Wagner who sponsored the bill that salvaged its labor provisions as the National Labor Relations Act (often called the Wagner Act in...
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