Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As a Senate intern this summer, I saw Gramm's principles in action on an issue that put his high-minded rhetoric of freedom in its proper context. As the Senate debated the appropriations bill for the Department of Justice, one of the funding items was the Legal Services Corporation...
We also endorse the bill's provision for closer monitoring of tobacco vendors to fight the sale of tobacco to minors. Teenagers are the highest risk groups when it comes to smoking. Officials report that 13 percent of Cambridge residents under 18 are smokers. With proper enforcement of existing laws...
Brushing aside still more White House warnings, House Republicans also passed a defense and foreign policy bill that would cut back U.S. financing of U.N. peacekeeping operations, restrict American troops from serving under U.N. command, and create a $1.5 million bipartisan commission to study national-security strategy. The usually solid...
Brady also quickly lost one of its most effective provisions, which required a background check and waiting period for anyone reclaiming a gun from a pawnshop. According to Handgun Control, Houston police reported that of 199 gun sales that were blocked in the first three weeks after Brady went into...
If Clinton ever had hopes he could warm up relations with Cuba, they are gone now that Republicans control Capitol Hill. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms and other powerful lawmakers are convinced that Castro is on the verge of collapse and should be squeezed even harder to precipitate...