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As word of the misstatements began to spread, Cranston counted the number of Lefever supporters in the full Senate dropping from 46 to 44, while opponents rose from 39 to 48. That was enough to sustain a filibuster against Lefever on the Senate floor, and probably enough to guarantee the...
During the 1980 presidential campaign, Reagan repeatedly called for gas decontrol as a way to boost exploration and supplies and cut dependence on foreign imported crude. When word leaked last week that the Administration intends to make good on that pledge, Congressmen reacted strongly. Warned Senate Democrat Howard Metzenbaum of...
Only a day earlier, conservatives from both sides of the Senate floor helped strangle an effort to strengthen the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Led by Sens. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) and Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), the conservatives survived a cloture vote needed to end their filibuster, and...
Last summer the Senate offered a compromise bill, sponsored chiefly by Democrats Henry Jackson of Washington and Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts. Jackson declared: "The bill is balanced, the product of bipartisan effort. All the groups are a little bit mad, which proves that we were honest judges." Indeed, Gravel tried...
On Sunday the Majlis met to discuss the fate of the hostages. After a stormy public debate, the members went into secret session, which ended without a resolution of the issue; another secret session was scheduled for Monday. Moderate forces in the Majlis defeated a motion to suspend debate until...