Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neill well knew, his plea was much too late: the roll call, when it finally came, contained no suspense. The Senate is expected to pass a similar Reagan budget this week with even greater ease. Responding to the new frugal mood, the Senate last week reversed an earlier vote and approved a $7.9 billion reduction in cost of living increases for retired federal employees and Social Security recipients in fiscal 1982. After the two budgets have been passed, minor differences between the resolutions will have to be resolved in a conference committee. And then, unless the whole budget process later...
...impeachment Congress as majority leader during Watergate. For the past eight of his 28 years in Congress, he has been the Democrat to deal with. But today many of the Speaker's good friends agree with Les Aspin that Tip is on the ropes. Despite a moving personal plea by O'Neill from the well of the House last week, 63 members of his party bolted ranks to vote for the Reagan-approved Gramm-Latta budget resolution. At that moment, it was clear that the nation's most powerful Democrat had been badly, perhaps even fatally, wounded...
When the Speaker moved back into the House chamber last week for his final plea against Reagan's budget, he passed up his high podium chair for an empty seat on the floor. As he chatted with colleagues who stopped by, O'Neill kept an ear on speakers at the podium. When one of them declared that Reagan's economic program was a disaster for the country, O'Neill clapped his hands quietly. At one point, there was too much noise in the chamber; the Speaker rose and commanded silence. For a moment, he still appeared...
...adjourned the court until this week, when a jury will be impaneled and, after hearing evidence, asked to decide the merits of Sutcliffe's diminished responsibility plea...
Should the manslaughter plea be accepted, Justice Boreham would still have the power to sentence Sutcliffe to any prison term, possibly including life. He could also order hospitalization. Whether Sutcliffe goes to prison or to a prison hospital, it is certain he will not have to face execution. Except in cases involving treason, Britain abolished capital punishment...