Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take effect on Nov. 7. Any congressional move toward military aid right now, said Wright, "assumes the failure of the peace process, and I don't think it will fail." Wright hinted that he would use his powers as Speaker to keep the Reagan request off the House floor...
...dioramas, stick-outs and wraparound environments of Red Grooms have been jiggling and creaking their way to glory on the fourth floor of Manhattan's Whitney Museum through the summer, and there are still queues round the block. Few American artists are more genuinely popular than this 50-year-old from the suburbs of Nashville. Look at Rembrandt and Saskia in their parlor, life-size and shining with booze! Hop into a New York City subway car left over from the pre-graffiti '60s, full of drunks, hippies, nervous housewives and one ultra- Orthodox Jew, all looking like Cabbage Patch...
...majority of the committee ends up opposing Bork. If, however, Bork is given an unfavorable report, Biden says, "I would hope the President would withdraw the nomination and send up another name. If Bork cannot convince the committee, then he probably would lose a vote on the floor as well." Given the stakes involved, Reagan is sure to ignore such advice, especially if the committee vote is close. The full Senate now seems about evenly split on the issue, with 30 or so Senators genuinely undecided...
...Judiciary Committee is likely to come from Paul Simon, who, like Biden, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination. Bork's most fervent support will come from two conservative Republicans, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Utah's Orrin Hatch. Later, when the issue reaches the Senate floor, Minority Leader Robert Dole will head the fight on Bork's behalf. The three key swing votes on the committee: Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Democrats Howell Heflin of Alabama and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Last week DeConcini still did not know what to make of the controversial jurist. "I have...
...could be enormous for years to come, is ultimately a political matter. If Americans watching the hearings this week like what they see, if they are reassured by either Bork's mind or his manner, the advice and consent of the public will certainly be felt on the Senate floor. And if the public becomes convinced that Bork's views are, as opponents charge, so far from the mainstream that they seem to threaten the rights that Americans have come to cherish, such sentiments will likewise probably prevail when the final votes are counted...