Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three tense hours later, Sanford emerged onto the Senate floor from a session with his party's leaders. Claiming that the President had already been vindicated by winning the first vote, he promised to favor the override in the next vote. The next vote, however, was not a sure...
...time for the heavy artillery; the press gallery loudspeaker rasped an announcement that the President would visit Capitol Hill to lobby the 13 Republican dissidents who opposed his veto. It loosed the press on an instant stampede to the second-floor corridor for a futile wait while the President began a fruitless and ignominious attempt to win a single Senate Republican to his side. Considering the political riches that a President can offer in return, few expected Reagan's failure to persuade even...
Throughout the three days of the battle it had been easy to believe that the Presidency hung in the balance. Suddenly, having felt the suspense, I wondered how members of both parties--not only on the floor, but in the press--could exaggerate the vote's importance, then, in a classic case of timidity, minimize it when the President lost. Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54's mixed metaphor after the vote met derision in the Senate Press Gallery" "If no more shoes drop on Irangate, [the President] is out of the woods...
...point of death he finds a few of his old tools lying on the floor and starts to make shoes again. To the old man's surprise and delight, his sons return home from the modern shoe plant they manage and join him at an activity both familiar and strange to them. The sons are engaged in a practice wrenched from its original circumstances, geography and social environment, yet it is one that allows them to be a family again; it is a practice that is somehow their own. They, like Walzer, have become communitarians who must find their home...
...Capitol Hill watchers expect a long andhard battle when the Senate committee's proposalreaches the floor because the body is sharplydivided over spending priorities...