Word: adjourn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...90th Congress is concerned, time's a-wastin'. With elections only a month off, its members are desperate to get their campaigns under way. Last week, for example, the 38 members of California's House dele gation decided to adjourn, come what may, at the end of this week. One of them explained simply: "We've got to get home...
...Miami Beach, a Democratic state senator began raising some dust back home. Senator Hugh M. Burns, president pro tem of the California senate and Acting Governor in the absence of the top two executive officers, invoked an obscure article of the state constitution and abruptly ordered the legislature to adjourn...
...unprecedented in California history, but apparently legal. The constitution states that a Governor may adjourn the state legislature when senate and assembly are in disagreement over adjournment. There was indeed disagreement. Senators had been pushing for adjournment for weeks, while Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh had been desperately seeking to keep his chamber in session. There is still plenty of unfinished business: Reagan's own program to reduce California's high property taxes, a $100 million school financing bill, increased workmen's compensation and disability benefits. The most important item: a $144 million deficit that is holding...
...stricter gun laws. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, a coalition of conservative Midwesterners and Southerners, ramrodded by South Carolina's Republican Strom Thurmond, riddled Joseph Tydings' gun-control bill with escape-clause amendments, leaving little hope for enactment of a meaningful law by a Senate racing to adjourn by Aug. 3. In the House, Veteran Emanuel Celler, a doughty proponent of stiff gun laws, concluded sadly that he lacked votes to overcome a House Rules Committee roadblock. Though Celler won support for a measure banning interstate mailorder sales of rifles, shotguns and ammunition, he had to compromise...
...Abernathy gave in. His purposely vague demands suddenly firmed up. His 49 demands turned out to be mainly uncreative housing and welfare proposals already offered by the Johnson Administration. And the target of the SCLC demands was a reactionary Congress that was about to adjourn...