Word: bill
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...Senate Ways and Means Committee endorsed the bill to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation by a vote of 7-6 with one member, Sen. Robert Wetmore (D-Barre) reserving his rights...
March 12, 1988: The icemen turn the consolation game against Vermont into a scoring fest. Harvard captures a 7-1 victory and earns a bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Crimson writes, "It was the kind of game Harvard Coach Bill Cleary could wrap up and stuff in a capsule." If only he had the wrapping paper...
BOSTON--The controversial gay rights bill, which is entering its 16th year before the State Legislature, was sent to the Senate yesterday by the narrowest of committee votes...
...Michael Barrett (D-Cambridge), the chief sponsor of the bill, praised the committee's swift action on the measure, coming two weeks after the panel received it, compared to the four-and-one-half months the committee held it last year...
Senate Ways and Means Chairman Patricia McGovern, a supporter, "did us an enormous favor," Barrett said. "We need an accelerated, decent treatment of this bill at every stage. Not accelerated in the sense that it is rushed. But we must avoid the delay tactics that swamped the bill last year...