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...problems of the ERA could not be entirely interpreted as a rebuke to women's rights. The sweeping simplicity of the amendment???"Equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex"?made many voters, especially women, nervous. The anti-ERA lobby, led by Phyllis Schlafly?a conspicuously liberated woman who at 51 is working for a law degree?conjured up the prospect of unisex public toilets, an end to alimony, women forced into duty as combat soldiers. In fact, the effects of the ERA are not known, and some constitutional lawyers argue that...
...amendment: this one would also halt both research and deployment on Safeguard but allow research on other types of ABM systems. Since Mrs. Smith was clearly not going to vote any money whatsoever for Safeguard?not even the research-only funds included in the Cooper-Hart amendment???the opposition's only hope was to get all the anti-ABM forces together behind Mrs. Smith's new amendment. They did just that, but it was not enough. Even with Mrs. Smith, they had only 50 votes, one shy of the majority needed to carry an amendment. Although the amendment was already...
...regular way, with the House conferees in formal disagreement with the Senate but free to bargain to the best of their ability. In effect, this resolution was aimed at the Senate amendment. In adopting the resolution the House predicted its final vote on the Senate's $24,000,000 amendment???against...
...Fordney-McCumber Tariff for its wool duties. An enemy of the Non-Partisan League in the Northwest, an opponent of the soldier bonus (although one of the two civil war veterans in the Senate), a supporter of the Dyer anti-lynching bill and an advocate of a child labor amendment???he leaves behind him the memory of a fearless, independent and forceful...
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