Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rights bill isn't expected to be debated by the Senate until after the chamber considers the fiscal 1989 budget, which could put the gay rights debate off until the Legislature returns from its summer break after Labor...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan vetoed a major trade bill for the second time in three years yesterday, and the House swiftly countered by voting to enact the measure over his objections...
...Senate would do well to move this thing along, to wage its battles and to get this bill to the House," Barrett said. "I don't think this is a bill that we want sitting around through the Democratic primary and through the November final [election.] It makes sense to move this hot potato right along...
...convinced this bill will cost jobs and damage our economic growth," Reagan said in focusing his veto message on a provision that would require companies to give their employees notice of plant closings and large-scale layoffs...
Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) acknowledged that the Senate would not override the president when it considers the veto early next month, but he scoffed at Reagan's request for speedy consideration of a stripped-down version of the bill...