Word: gavelling
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...There are so many issues I wish I could speak about on the council floor, but if I did, I would be ceding the gavel every meeting," he says...
...says Hollings is evil," says a Democratic committee staff member. "In fact, he says Hollings is an honorable debater." McCain always shows deference to the longer-serving Hollings by going to his office for meetings. On occasions when McCain leaves committee hearings, he breaks Senate protocol and hands his gavel to his Democratic counterpart rather than the Republican next in line...
...when Stewart ceded her gavel, even she admitted that perhaps the council had taken too narrow a view during her term. She endorsed Seton and Redmond for office, complimenting their larger view of what "student services" include...
Rawlins, Hyman's vice president, continued the trend when she received the gavel, heavily recruiting minorities for the council. Under Hyman and Rawlins, a docket filled with bills from the Campus Life Committee (CLC) had to make room for more legislation from the Student Affairs Committee (SAC), a group which recommends policy changes to administrators...
...impeachment hawk like Pat Robertson tells you to get off the stage. Robertson told the audience of his "700 Club" TV show that President Clinton "hit a home run" with the State of the Union Speech -- and that as far as he was concerned, Republicans should take their gavel and go home. As conversions go, it was as if the Pope had suddenly begun reciting the Koran at mass. And it provided even more cover to the growing list of Republicans who are glancing at Clinton's stratospheric poll numbers and nervously looking for the exit. "A lot of Republicans...