Word: omnibus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only in the last eight months that the House Judiciary Committee has attacked the Senate's omnibus approach as too broad, too unwiedly and ultimately too dangerous...
...House Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice took up consideration of the House version of the Kennedy-McClellan bill, but by June had unanimously rejected the entire omnibus approach and begun to create its own much more limited legislation. The bill that the subcommittee reported to the full Judiciary Committee, however, never came to a vote, and code reform has died until Congress' next session...
...then included a section on video and spanned all the media. VES 147, taught by Robert Saudek, former television producer of Omnibus; a weekly television documentary series, and Eric Martin, his teaching assistant, was a seminar on TV that offered both practical and theoretical video experience...
...during the early stages of its passage through the Senate. On the floor and in the opening committee skirmishes of a battle that is likely to drag on through the fall, the Senate reflected deep disagreement with parts of the plan. Unlike the House, the Senate is tackling the omnibus bill piecemeal; a few of the proposed changes strengthen the program but most weaken...
...Works). To make sure the House produces a comprehensive bill, O'Neill has created yet another committee-the Ad Hoc Committee on Energy. Normally, the regular committees would send their recommendations to the floor piecemeal, but the Ad Hoc Committee will package all of the recommendations into one omnibus bill. More important, perhaps, the new committee will have the power to offer its own amendments to the basic bill, and could even go so far as to put forward an entirely new version...