Word: chairmanships
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...Soviet Union wants to throw all of these issues into Geneva. [The Soviet proposal is to renew Middle East peace negotiations in Geneva under the chairmanship of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.] We don't rule out Geneva at a point, but we do feel that in the interim before we go to Geneva, or they do reconvene Geneva on an active basis, we ought to try and make some other additional progress on a step-by-step basis...
Payton said that he had just accepted the chairmanship, and had not yet communicated with the other committee members...
...Cannon in 1910. The caucus voted to increase Mills' committee to 37 members, including 25 Democrats, and thus permit an influx of younger, more liberal Representatives. As Mills went into a hospital, Albert made it clear that the Steering Committee will not even permit Mills to retain his chairmanship...
Grew Tired. Since he took his seat on Ways and Means in 1943, Mills has made the committee's intricate tax-writing and budgetary chores his special province. By the time he assumed the committee chairmanship in 1958, he was the undisputed master of revenue legislation in the House. In the years since, his formidable grasp of the U.S. tax code has made committee members and Congress reliant on the chairman and consolidated Mills' power...
...power manifest, some congressional observers believe, Mills in recent years grew tired of his chairmanship. But even his colleagues were taken aback when, late in 1971, Mills decided to make a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. The move proved to be disastrous, and Mills was ignominiously ignored at the 1972 party convention in Miami Beach; some associates date his decline from then. That campaign had other negative fallout...