Word: claiming
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Senate leaders agreed to introduce S. Res. 411 because, as Mansfield said, the Senate should claim "its traditional privilege that information secured by employees of the Senate pursuant to their official duties may not be revealed without the consent of the Senate. Having supplied the information relevant to the use of the frank, the Senate should resist any further intrusion in the operations of the Senate and individual Senate offices," Mansfield said...
...Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct ("The Ethics Committee") agreed to this new rule last November 4, but did not notify Senate offices until the effective date of January 1. The committee action came in apparent response to Common Cause criticism of newsletters, but lobby group spokesmen claim no direct involvement in Senate rule-making...
...Many of Sakhnin's residents did not know about the sudden curfew, the Arabs claim. Thus early in the morning, when a woman left her house, she was shot without warning. When a neighbor rushed to help her, he was shot dead. Then, according to the villagers, two others were killed...
Nixon's other son-in-law, Edward Cox, 29, denies the book's claim that he had expressed fear of a Nixon suicide and insists that he never said the President was walking the White House halls at night, "talking to the pictures on the wall." Eisenhower supports Cox's denial...
...committees did vote for spending of $413 billion, v. the $395.8 billion proposed by President Ford, and for a deficit of about $50 billion, while Ford had proposed $44.6 billion. And their votes on specific items leave plenty of room for campaign argument: Democrats are already pressing a debatable claim that their version of the budget will produce 1.1 million more jobs than Ford's proposals. But whatever they may say publicly some top Administration officials are prepared to live with the committees' overall totals. They have said privately that they would be "very pleased" with any spending...