Note 119 — Chapter III · THE CONCEPT OF EMERGENCY IN AMERICAN LEGISLATION
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66 Stat. 315, July 1, 1952, Sec. 2 (a). Section 201 (g) of the Civil Defense Act, op. cit., had encouraged such compacts and provided for their automatic approval in the absence of exercise of the congressional veto. Here, however, Congress resorted to the traditional machinery, enacting a statute granting its consent.