Word: gavelling
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...Occasional lapses in order yesterday saw Interim University President Derek C. Bok reaching for his gavel, but the gavel’s bang was less jarring than the absence of former Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles...
...been replaced as chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. In his four years in the post, Inhofe held a total of five hearings on climate change, and the star witness was a science-fiction fabulist: Michael Crichton, a critic of warming theory. Now holding the gavel is California's Barbara Boxer, who has had five hearings on climate change in less than three months. While more hearings are a certainty, she must also help field a flock of green bills being offered by newly empowered Democratic members...
...been pretty much invisible. When Reid began mumbling something in the chamber a few minutes after the new Senate was sworn in, his colleagues were too caught up in their own conversations to notice that he was giving his inaugural address. "Please," presiding Senator Frank Lautenberg implored, tapping the gavel, "the majority leader is speaking...
...private, Senate sources say, Reid has been critical of the Speaker for what he believes was unnecessary roughness in ramming through her first-100-hours agenda, refusing to allow Republicans to propose amendments and breaking her campaign promise to open up the lawmaking process. There may also be some gavel envy; Pelosi will be able to pass one hard-line piece of legislation after another out of the House--putting Reid in the impossible spot of trying to find 60 votes for these bills in the Senate...
...topic of Pataki’s speech has not yet been decided, according to Kennedy School spokesman Doug Gavel...