Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the present bill omits the two principles that Bobby Kennedy had sought: 1) that every firearm in the U.S. be registered, and 2) that every gun owner be required to seek a federal license. It may take another act of horror to push really effective gun curbs through Congress...
...reservists argue that Congress exceeded its constitutional authority in 1966 when it passed a law authorizing the President to mobilize part of the Ready Reserve when there was no national emergency or formal declaration of war by Congress. Even if the law is not unconstitutional, the protesters claim that they are not covered by it because they joined the Reserves before it was passed...
...redwoods. Their mahogany-hued, durable lumber (it virtually defies dry rot) is highly prized for its structural and decorative uses. To date, the battle has gone to the chainsaw. Where there were once 2,000,000 acres of virgin redwoods, only 250,000 stand today. Last week, as Congress sent to President Johnson a bill establishing the nation's first Redwood National Forest, the conservationists won a significant victory...
...last year, the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers assembled in Moscow to hymn the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The party hacks were in full control, and neither Solzhenitsyn nor any other dissenter was permitted to mount the rostrum. So Solzhenitsyn put his protest in the form of a letter to the congress that was circulated privately among the delegates and soon dominated all the corridor discussion. It has become the credo of dissenters not only in Russia but in Eastern Europe as well. Excerpts...
Since I am unable to speak from the platform, I would ask the congress to consider the oppression to which our literature has for decades and decades been subjected on the part of the censorship-the censorship for which there is no provision in the constitution and which is therefore illegal, the censorship that never passes under its own name and gives literary illiterates arbitrary power over writers. There is no recognition of the right of our writers to state publicly their opinions about the moral life of men and society, to elucidate in their own way the social problems...