Word: howard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Majority Leader Robert Byrd has kept things quiet by refusing to schedule votes on Fridays, thus inviting Senators to leave town Thursday night for weekend politicking back home. While floor action often runs beyond dinnertime in busier periods, the Senate has been adjourning around 5:30 p.m. Minority Leader Howard Baker jokes wryly that new members may get the wrong idea and think these hours are normal. Says he: "I have to remind them not to get used...
...important issue of verification might turn him against the treaty, despite his basic support for arms control. This would be a serious blow to the treaty in the Senate, where chances of obtaining the two-thirds vote required for ratification are very uncertain. Just last week Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker said he was "leaning against" the treaty. Among the issues worrying him: verification...
...Henry Jackson of Washington, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee and Carter's principal Senate ally on energy, supported phased decontrol. But a trip back home to the Northwest changed his mind, as voters howled about rising fuel prices. Last week Jackson joined with Kennedy and Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, one of the Administration's bitterest foes in previous energy fights, in co-sponsoring a bill to overrule Carter and extend price controls for two years. With less than five weeks remaining before Congress's Memorial Day break, the bill, which requires a majority vote in both...
Murder at the Howard Johnson's--Wilbur Theater...
Harvard Yard Rally--Mike Ansara, former New England coordinator, Students for a Democratic Society; Leslie Cagan, socialist/feminist organizer; Rep. Saundra Graham, (D-Cambridge); Andrea Kyold, assistant director, VISTA; George Wald, professor of Biology emeritus; and Howard Zinn, professor of Political Science, Boston University. Music by Marcia Taylor and Charlie King...