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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had only one provision that protected women against gender bias, Lichtman said.
The provision, which is in the employment section, "was added partly as a joke and party as a way of showing those wide eye lierals just how ridiculous and how out of hand the civil rights act had really become," Lichtman said.
AUG. 11 -- The House voted on a parliamentary rule needed to bring HR3355, the crime bill as amended in conference, to the floor for an up-or-down vote. The package differed from the original bill in several significant ways: its overall price tag had increased $5 billion, to $33...
One of the bills under debate in Trenton echoes a "sexual predators" provision in the crime bill approved by Congress last week, which requires certain offenders to check in with police every 90 days for the rest of their lives. The New Jersey proposal would require police to notify neighbors...
It was a stunning defeat for the Clinton Administration and Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives: the lower chamber refused to consider, by a vote of 225 to 210, the compromise $33.3 billion crime bill its negotiators had painstakingly worked out with the Senate last month. The bill -- which...