Word: billing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bulger ruled that any senatorial amendments to the bill had to be submitted to the Senate clerk by 5 p.m. yesterday. Any late amendments would be considered delaying tactics and would be taken up without being printed in the Senate calendar, according to the ruling...
...lesbian rights lobbyists applauded Bulger's decision, saying it limits new opposition to their cause and may speed passage of the bill, which the Massachusetts legislature has considered for the last 17 years...
...News has been good since the Senate went back into session last week," said Arline Isaacson, co-chair of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus. "Two amendments and three motions to delay the bill have already been defeated...
Isaacson said she believes that senators have tired of debating the bill, and that the ruling by Bulger, a staunch opponent of the bill in past years, expresses an overall desire to bring the bill to a vote...
David LaFontaine, lobbying director of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, said he thinks Bulger's ruling guaranteed the bill would pass the Senate, where supporters have a solid majority...