Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly before sunrise one day last week, the Hon. Ernest F. Rollings, Democrat of South Carolina, appeared on the Senate floor in a bright green jogging suit. "It makes good pajamas," he observed. In the corridors and cloakrooms around him, less comfortably attired colleagues padded about in stocking feet or dozed fitfully on cots provided by the Army and Air Force. "Barbaric," croaked rumpled, unshaven Minority Leader Howard Baker as he surveyed the blanket-littered hallways. "An outrage," seconded Majority Leader Robert Byrd. Over the ayes, nays and occasional snores of his bleary-eyed colleagues, Senator Robert Dole told...
...Byrd won the approval of Abourezk and Metzenbaum for the Jackson compromise. But the Senators who favor decontrol refused to go along. To block the compromise -and prevent a move to freeze prices at the current ceiling-they began their own talk fest. Said Louisiana Democrat Russell Long: "A filibuster is an act of piracy. So if there's going to be a filibuster, I'm going to be a pirate too.* With that, he began calling up for votes the remainder of Abourezk's 508 amendments...
...most formidable early foe of ratification appears to be Alabama's wily Democrat James Allen, a master of parliamentary tactics. He vows to smother the treaties with amendments that would, in effect, force the Administration either to abandon the accord or reopen negotiations with Panama. If this tactic fails, he will try to dilute the treaties with Senate-passed reservations, which would not be legally binding but would commit the U.S. in a moral way, with unpredictable practical effect...
...breezed through the U.S. House of Representatives may be the session's most important piece of legislation, with ramifications no one can foresee. It extends the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 in private industry and removes it altogether for federal employees. Said the bill's sponsor, Florida Democrat Claude Pepper, 77: "At long last, we will have eliminated ageism as we have previously eliminated sexism and racism as a basis for discrimination in this country, and we will be putting a new emphasis on human rights...
...victory it was. Koch's lead grew to ten points last week over the other Democrat who made it into the primary runoff, New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo. That surprisingly large plurality-78,000 out of 786,000 votes cast-made Koch New York's unofficial mayor-elect, though he must still get through a four-way general election. TIME Bureau Chief Laurence I. Barrett covered Koch's journey from obscurity to fame-and to the precipice of New York's intimidating problems. Barrett's report...