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Kennedy urged a freeze on the deployment of the two new weapon systems and said he would lead a bipartisan effort in Congress to cut off funds for ABM and MIRV...
Bator said, "Unlike other Senators, he never grandstands. On the McGovern amendment he's playing majority leader while trying to build bipartisan support. He realizes how vulnerable Congress is when playing with Constitutional issues while 'our boys are dying.' He's just pushing for as much as he can get. But he just has no charisma...
...alternative amendment, which has the bipartisan backing of Kansas' Sen ator Robert Dole, a Republican, and Missouri's Senator Thomas Eagleton, a Democrat, would theoretically meet most of the objections. Under their so-called "Federal System Plan," a President would be elected if he received a plurality of the popular vote and either 1) pluralities in more than 50% of the states, or 2) pluralities in combinations of states with more than 50% of the voters. If no one satisfied the requirements, the election would then go to the Electoral College which would be slightly altered so that...
...these strained relations could possibly come when the Senate takes up Nixon's plan to expand the ABM program. The animosity did not rub on the House of Representatives last week, where Nixon's pioneering reform of the nation's welfare policies passed handily with a bipartisan majority, 243-155. But the drive in the House by Southern Democrats and Republicans to impeach Justice William Douglas (see following story) looked like a retaliatory move by Carswell supporters and further embittered the controversy over the court...
...preliminary test vote last week, a bipartisan coalition upheld the Scott-Hart bill 47 to 32. Final passage in the Senate and concurrence by the House now seems likely...