Word: enaction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Bush, who endorsed a tougher Senate version of the bill during the campaign, said he would introduce his own ethics legislation. But odds are slim that Congress, without the pressure of an election, will enact a stricter ethics law affecting its own members. Observed Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank: "There were a lot of votes behind this bill, but not a lot of support...
Karl Marx said that historical events and personalities enact themselves first as tragedy and then, in their repetition, as farce. Some of the imitations and reincarnations of J.F.K. have had traces of the farcical. In 1984 Gary Hart, during the primaries, slipped into a bizarre physical impersonation that had him descending the stairs of airplanes with just the gingerly J.F.K. inclination of bad back and his right hand tucked into his jacket pocket, the thumb protruding in the way that Kennedy's always did. The American voter began to think of Madame Tussaud's, or of Elvis impersonators...
Although Washington's democratically-elected City Council had the power to enact these provisions, the city still remains at the mercy of Congress. Such is the state of affairs in the District, which until 1975 was not even allowed any form of self-government. In the same year, the city was granted an elected delegate in the House of Representatives; the only problem is, he can't vote...
DESPITE President Reagan's failure to enact many of his extreme proposals, the Reagan Revolution has influenced the presidential candidates greatly. But instead of moving the terms of the political debate to the right, Reagan's policies have shifted both parties toward the center...
Despite constitutional concerns--acknowleged even by the bill's sponsors--the tug of election-year politics was so strong that House members appeared willing to enact the toughest possible bill and let the courts decide the legal questions later...