Word: lames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Election Day, the President has been arguing that he has achieved working control of the Senate. But the 92nd Congress will not be seated until January, and in the interim the White House wanted very much to demonstrate forward momentum by winning its first important test in the current lame-duck session. When the showdown came last week-on a Senate move to override a Nixon veto-the Administration won a close fight...
...occasion was the first full lame-duck session of Congress in 20 years, a meeting that will last until just before Christmas or, in Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott's wry prophecy, until "we reach the end of our mutual patience with each other." Before the week was out, considerable attrition of that patience had already taken place. In a vote that crossed party lines and had an indecipherable mixture of political and philosophical motives, the Senate Finance Committee voted 10 to 6 to reject President Nixon's Family Assistance Plan. The proposal, which would change the underlying...
While Congress sits in lame duck session with seven appropriations bills, and most of President Nixon's major domestic programs, pressure can be applied to the so-called Senate doves to immediately reopen televised Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Vietnam and filibuster until the President gives Congress his assurance the bombing raids will not continue...
Included in this lame duck Congress are five Senate doves who have nothing to lose by leading a filibuster to show their colleagues and the President that the cry for no business as usual applies most directly to them; Goodell, Tydings, Gore, McCarthy and Yarborough have already put their Senate seats on the line in opposition to the war. Dramatic opposition to the President when it can be so effective is only consistent with their higher goals...
...billion to restore stock to customers of failing brokers, all may be well for investors, though not necessarily for their brokers. The Goodbody furore has improved the bill's chances, but it still could be put aside in an adjournment rush at the end of Congress's lame-duck session. If the S.I.P.C. bill fails and the trouble continues, Wall Street will face a terrifying unknown: What would be the consequences of the failure of a major house whose customers are not protected by anyone in either downtown Manhattan or Washington...