Word: bill
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...House of Representatives is debating a bill, approved by a large margin in the Senate, to establish a separate Department of Education Although the bill is being delayed by numerous amendments, representatives expect by tomorrow a close vote that could go either...
...April 30, the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 72 to 21, but in the House there remains controversy over both the merits of the bill itself and over several unfriendly floor amendments that have been accepted by the House...
...Alaska would be allowed to maintain subsistence hunting of the endangered bowhead whale under strict quotas (last year's ceiling: 18 kills). If the conference fails to act on the U.S. proposal or a similar one, Congress may toss out a legislative harpoon of its own: a bill sponsored by Senators Warren Magnuson of Washington and Bob Packwood of Oregon would deny U.S. fishing rights within a 200-mile coastal limit to any countries that ignore IWC rulings. Such legislation would strongly bolster any moratorium passed by the IWC, which has no enforcement authority. Says U.S. Delegate Tom Garrett...
Lest the new buck go the way of the Eisenhower dollar and the Jefferson $2 bill, both of which had disadvantages and have just about disappeared from active circulation, the Mint is spending $600,000 on what amounts to an affirmative-action campaign to help the numismatic Ms. Anthony get ahead...
...Anthony buck are high. The coins, which are made of nickel-covered copper and contain no silver, weigh only a third as much as the Ike dollar. They are also cheaper to produce than paper dollars-3? for a coin that lasts 15 years vs. 1.8? for a bill that survives 18 months. The coin's distinctive undecagonal shape, besides being an aid to the blind, is also intended to help store clerks and bank tellers speed up transaction time and reduce errors; it should also cut down on jamming in currency-counting machines used at banks. In fact...