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...turnaround came after pay raise opponents mustered a 238-88 majority against a House Democratic leadership motion to adjourn...
Gray said members feared a vote to end yesterday's debate and adjourn "was going to be interpreted as a vote on the pay raise." He said any vote to increase lawmakers' salary now would fail. Even "if it's a vote on 4 percent, it ain't going to pass," Gray added...
...comparison with the $2.7 billion, three-year pricetag on the Senate bill, the House package would cost about $7.5 billion. Congressional leaders hope negotiators can hammer out a compromise before the House and Senate adjourn for the year at week...
Sukowa's acting combines grace and power. She transforms her role into a psychological study, conveying the essence of a woman who could deliver roaring speeches at one moment and then adjourn to a sophisticated ball. After watching Sukowa's Luxemburg, one understands exactly what the radical's daily life was like--her struggle for her ideology, the embittering of her personal life and the eventual estrangement of her allies...
...props and scenery pile into buses and trucks to barnstorm the country. This particular company is spending five months on the road doing mostly one-night stands. They wake up in time to make the bus, travel much of the day to a new theater, play their parts, then adjourn to a hotel till bus call the next morning. Thus pass strings of small cities: Harlingen, McAllen, Corpus Christi; Pueblo, Albuquerque, El Paso. Four months into the tour, everyone is tired, everyone feels cut adrift, almost everyone suffers from a cough known as the "bus crud." The play, coincidentally...