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...Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), principal Senate sponsor of the extension, predicted the Senate will approve the ERA extension by a wide margin when the issue comes to a final vote Friday...
Passage of Garn's proposal "would have effectively killed any chance for final ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment," Bayh said in a statement after the vote...
...vote yesterday does not apply to the decision votes of Idaho, Nebraska and Tennessee. Congress must still determine whether to permit the three states to reverse their stands after all states have voted on the ERA, Bayh told the Senate...
...Senators were impressed. Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who heads the intelligence committee, pointed out that its report was based on "largely secondhand" evidence. Treaty proponents argued irrefutably that the drug-trafficking allegations were irrelevant to the question of whether the canal pact was desirable. Said California's Alan Cranston, the majority whip: "There was no smoking gun found in Torrijos' hand, and besides, he's not going to be around in the year 2000." Even Alabama Democrat James Allen, a leading opponent of the treaties, concluded that the drug debate had been pointless. Said he: "I don't think...
...proposal for direct voting that has the most support was devised by Indiana Senator Birch Bayh. He suggests that if no candidate received more than 40% of the popular vote, a runoff be held between the two top vote getters...