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...along, the Administration and Senate Democratic leaders were confident that they had a firm majority of votes for passage of the bill. But they were not certain they could enlist the 60 votes needed to cut off the filibuster led by Republican Senators Richard Lugar of Indiana and Orrin Hatch of Utah. Lugar argued that owners of small businesses are "overtaxed and overregulated" and had a legitimate fear of a "further extension of union organizing power and of a strengthened National Labor Relations Board." He had helped prepare 1,200 amendments that could have come up for votes...
Concert: Harvard Summer Pops Band, conducted by Thomas G. Everett. Hatch Shell, Charles River Esplanade. Free...
...find the answers, Focks will set up in New Orleans two 40-hectare (100-acre) sites, one as a control and one for experimentation. During this summer, he will release in the test area about 1,000 female Toxorhynchites, which will lay eggs that hatch into predatory larvae. Because the New Orleans mosquito control board has kept records on the Aedes aegypti for four years, any significant decrease in its numbers will be apparent. "We know the Toxorhynchites will be effective," declares Focks, "and the cost could be only pennies per acre...
...legendary filibusters of the past, however, when tireless orators recited whole books of the Bible while their exhausted colleagues napped on couches in the corridors. More conscious of their collective image nowadays, Senators do stick to debating, however windily, the one and only subject on the agenda. But as Hatch said last week, "Everyone knows that we are now in a period of extended debate." And just how extended? Says Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who firmly supports the bill: "We're not going to quit in two weeks-or three weeks, or four weeks...
Since the opponents of the bill know that they are at least five nays shy of defeating it in a direct vote, they are trying to make sure that they control the 41 votes needed to prevent any shut-off or cloture of their "extended debate." Hatch claims that the opponents have enough votes to keep debate going through the first four or five cloture votes, but after that the count becomes more uncertain...