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Both chambers began the session by reforming their ways of doing business. The Senate streamlined its committee structure; it also served notice that tyrannical committee chairmen, once chosen on the basis of seniority alone, could be replaced. The House similarly undermined entrenched committee bosses and shifted power to the Speaker. Democrat Tip O'Neill used that leverage to become the strongest Speaker since "Uncle" Joe Cannon, some 65 years ago. Both House and Senate also adopted new ethics rules limiting the outside income that members were allowed to earn...
Just after being introduced, the plan ran into opposition. The opposition grew with time. First, the chairmen of committees that were to be abolished, such as Small Business and Veterans Affairs, protested the loss of a voice in the Senate; leaders of interest groups that dealt with these committees echoed this complaint. Second, there was opposition to some of the jurisdictional changes, such as transferring international economic policy from Foreign Relations to Banking. Third, there were technical questions about whether the Senate could unilaterally abolish joint committees. Fourth, there was opposition to what some senators, including Barry Goldwater (R.-Ariz...
Tosteson, himself, also has a hand in hospital administration. As president of the Harvard Medical Center--really a council of hospital officials--Tosteson hopes better to coordinate the activities of the 13 hospitals affiliated with Harvard. Tosteson says the council, which includes the chairmen of the board of each affiliated hospital, was created in the early '60s for fund-raising purposes, but fell into disuse. Ebert reinvigorated the group three years ago with strong encouragement from President Bok, Tosteson says...
...curb sharply Soviet influence in the region. But Kissinger himself has noted that Moscow would have to be brought back into the arena eventually. Says a State Department official: "The Soviets are not an ornament in the Middle East. We simply cannot reconvene Geneva without one of the co-chairmen." If Geneva collapses or is never reconvened at all, critics of the Administration will undoubtedly argue that the Russians will have won diplomatic re-entry into the Middle East, and for nothing...
Ross said yesterday his election was part of "an effort to provide continuity" for Hillel. Hillel's operations were disorganized last year because of the prior decentralized system of committees and rotating chairmen...