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Because of a last-minute filibuster by State Sen. Mary L. Fonseca, who objected to the salary increases included in the program, the senate did not have time to vote on the bill.
The Carter administration is under fire: from the right for asking businesses to make larger sacrifices and from the left for Vice-President Mondale's ill-advised interference in the filibuster designed to block efforts to raise the ceiling on natural gas prices--an effort the administration also opposed. That...
Natural gas price controls This is the second most difficult issue facing the conference committee. At present, natural gas that remains inside the state where it is produced is free from price controls, but gas that is shipped across state lines has a Government price ceiling of $1.47 per 1...
Perhaps unwisely, Carter has insisted that both he and the Congress should have their first-year performance in domestic matters judged almost solely on the energy legislation. The tumultuous tone and tactics of the struggle?including a precedent-smashing Senate filibuster and a whip-cracking maneuver by Majority Leader Robert...
The independence of Congress and its defiance of the President are established and growing phenomena. Perhaps Viet Nam and Watergate injured the presidency even more than we thought. Reverence for the office is diminished. Personal disdain is often open, as when Senator James Abourezk suggested during the natural gas filibuster...