Word: method
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...convenience. In some committees a chairman can refuse to bring up a bill altogether. Mississippi's James Eastland, 66, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and one of the most notorious racists in the upper body, has often ignored and sometimes killed civil rights bills by that method. Through similar control of procedures, Wilbur Mills, the Representative of a rural Arkansas constituency, has as much as or more power than the President in determining changes in tax, welfare and Social Security laws, simply because primogeniture has given him the chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee (even...
...third suggestion would put the choice of chairmen up to the caucus, which could choose from any of its members. This would be the most democratic method and, in theory anyway, would allow choices to be made on merit alone. The principal objection to this plan is that it could lead to all sorts of unseemly plotting and bargaining; conceivably, it might take Congress weeks to organize itself after every election...
Issuing the latest memorandum on the lifeless Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, the Ad Hoc Committee on Elections yesterday suggested a new method of electing student representatives...
Under the present method, student CRR members are chosen in the Houses, designated on a rotating basis...
...that's fine enough when you're dealing with styles- and that is what Wolfe claims to be dealing with- but it's a pretty inadequate method of dealing with what must be recognized as a social problem. True enough, the oppression the Panthers encounter can only be heard as a distant echo within the Bernstein duplex. There is something funny in the Bernsteins' noblesse oblige. But to treat the Panthers' predicament as equally amusing- "Lenny reaches up from out of the depths of the easy chair and hands him [Don Cox] a mint . . . a puffed mint, an after-dinner...