Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Chrysler is confident that Congress will approve guarantees in the $500 million-to-$700 million range, it may have trouble getting action before the legislators adjourn, probably in November, after which the company's petition might become an issue in the 1980 election campaign...
Reason: in its rush to adjourn, the state legislature failed to pass a law extending the life of the board that licenses and regulates psychologists. Since July 1 Florida's counties have issued local licenses to all comers. Bade County alone certified more than 200 psychologists in July, then had doubts and revoked the permits...
...Congress prepared to adjourn last week for a month's recess, all sense of urgency seemed to evaporate in the summer heat. Much to the disgust of the White House, the push to pass the President's energy bill ground to a halt...
...veto two major bills: the tax and the public works measures. Both may soon involve him in major conflicts. Taxes. With his impeccable sense of timing, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long finally released his committee's version of the tax bill. Since Congress is trying to adjourn by October 14, Senators had little time to digest the fine print in the complicated act, and Long would just as soon they did not. As he once told a Senator fretting over the meaning of a provision in a tax bill: "If we waited for you to understand this bill...
...members will be more cautious this session, particularly since there is no national consensus on many key issues. Experts forecast only a moderately productive session, with a number of important matters?among them, national health insurance and reform of the tax and welfare systems?postponed in a rush to adjourn by Oct. 1 so that legislators can concentrate on campaigning. Says House Republican Leader John Rhodes of Arizona: "Nobody wants to get into those morasses this year. If we don't adjourn, we'll just stay around in Washington and do a lot of dumb things...