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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate, which rarely initiates legislation but does have veto power. During the first four months of this year alone, the Senate, in which the Liberal and Country parties have a majority, blocked no fewer than 42 out of 43 Whitlam proposals. At week's end the final count of the Senate vote had barely begun. Yet even if the conservatives manage to hold their edge in the Senate, they will be unlikely to act quite so cavalierly in rejecting Whitlam's legislation...
...Head Count. In contrast to the G.O.P. indignation, the Democrats were taking the latest revelations almost in stride. The wisest of them have recognized all along that in the end, it would have to be Republicans who brought Nixon down. Observed Pennsylvania Congressman William Green: "They said at the White House that the transcripts would prove the President is innocent. They don't. Instead, they incriminate him." Said Georgia Representative Jack Flynt: "I can understand, after having read them, why he didn't want to release the transcripts." Added Representative John Brademas of Indiana: "There was an extraordinary moral obtuseness...
...White House to demand the President's resignation. But the Republicans are too sensitive to both the winds of politics and the constitutional separation of powers to take any action that might drastically tip the scales of Government. The most they would do is take a head count on impeachment in both houses and submit their findings to the President. "I don't know what to do," said a top congressional leader. "I pray a lot." He meant...
...December 1972, when they put into power the first Labor government in 23 years. In short order, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, the towering (6 ft. 4 in.) tornado of Australian politics, abolished the draft, and made it clear to both the U.S. and Britain that they could no longer count on unquestioning Aussie support of their Pacific policies. At home his broom was just as brisk, and his Labor government imposed restrictions on big multinational corporations, which control about two-thirds of the country's mining, and gave big boosts to government programs for education, health and transportation...
...were blocked, however, by an anomaly of the Australian constitution-the Senate. Though the 1972 elections gave Whitlam a 67-58 edge in the House, the Senate, with its six-year terms for members, remained firmly in the hands of the opposition Liberal-Country Party coalition. The opposition could count on 31 votes, while Labor had only 26 seats. The Australian Senate is supposed to act only as a slowing brake on the House of Representatives, with deliberative-but not veto-powers. In fact, the conservative-dominated body managed to stop Whitlam's more radical domestic innovations altogether...