Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote on the Senate floor only the part of the House drinking bill that raised the drinking age to 19, while keeping in committee the portion of the bill gradually raising the drinking age to 21. Because the entire bill was technically before the Senate, the senators could not amend the bill to phase in a 21-year drinking...
...year-old drinking bill proposed raising the age to 19 through a parliamentary maneuver in the Senate Ways and Means committee. By an 8-1 vote, the committee discarded the House bill and sent the age 19 proposal to the Senate floor in a form difficult to amend. The Senate approved the final bill by a vote of 29-3 with two members voting "present...
...students will present two proposals to amend the bill, Arthur Wing, Northeastern University's representative to the Massachusetts Independent Student Congress, said last night...
Said Brown in his second-term inaugural address: "It is time to get off the treadmill, to challenge the assumption that more government spending automatically leads to better living." His solution: amend the U.S. Constitution to prohibit the government from spending more each year than its revenues...
Lorna Straus, a member of the committee, said that last spring, Harvard received permission from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to transfer some of its work-study fund to Radcliffe without jeopardizing Radcliffe's independent status to help amend the discrepancy...