Word: enactment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second week of the committee's hearing on bills to set up an independent Watergate prosecutor. During lulls in the questioning, his eyes were focused on the intricate owl and sunflower he was doodling on notebook paper, but his advice was directed to the Senators: 1) enact legislation requiring Senate confirmation of Nixon's choice as special Watergate prosecutor, and 2) hold up the confirmation of Senator William Saxbe as Attorney General until the President promises to release all evidence requested by the prosecutor...
...even by Nixon's promise that Jaworski would be free to seek whatever documents he desires and that he would not be fired without the approval of a "substantial majority" of eight congressional leaders of both parties. Republican Representative Wiley Mayne of Iowa said Congress still had to enact legislation with "very strong language assuring the independence of the special prosecutor." Declared Wisconsin Democrat Robert Kastenmeier, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee: "The truth is we cannot have any faith in the President on this matter." Added Illinois's Stevenson: "We've relied before...
Councillor Robert P. Moncreiff opposed the resolution, claiming that such a measure is outside of the council's jurisdiction. "This council does not have the power to enact such legislation," he said. "Disclosure laws belong in the state and national legislatures...
...control land use within their borders, making local governments-which are much more susceptible to pressures by local power groups -accept that responsibility almost by default. But now the states will have to recover their original power, whether they want it or not. Congress is almost sure to enact a major law this fall that will force states to oversee all development of their land...
Curiously, Australia's new Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam seemed to rile Heath more by warning the underdeveloped Commonwealth countries to beware of multinational corporations. Heath retorted that if Whitlam had problems with such corporations in Australia, he should enact antitrust laws. "That would ensure competition," the British Conservative leader said. "But," he added, cuttingly, "that is not something socialist prime ministers like to hear...