Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration realized that it would be difficult for congressmen to face their consitituents if they voted against any anti-drug bill. So two provisions--one calling for the execution of pushers convicted for the second time, and the other allowing courts to scrap the Exclusionary rule in cases of illegal searches and seizures involving drugs--nearly found their way into the All American drug bill...
Democrats in the House barely managed to exclude these provisions from the bill only at the last minute. But Reagan's attempt to manipulate the crisis remains evidence of base political demogoguery and outright hypocrisy...
...pared down--they went for what they could get. They needed the tunnel and they needed the expressway," said Goldman, who described the overall bill as "an eclectic piece of business...
...There were definite concerns about some of the pork in the bill," said Brad Minnick, chief of staff for State House Minority Leader Steven Pierce. "[Pierce's] general philosophy is one of great concern for how the taxpayers' dollars are spent...
State Sen. David H. Locke, who directed both of Reagan's Massachusetts campaigns, takes a dimmer view of the bill, said his spokesman Dan Eramian...