Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...requires, among other things, that members and Senate employees file statements of their financial holdings with the U.S. Comptroller General (TIME, March 22). The lists could be opened only after a majority vote of the six-man committee on Standards and Conduct. But under the Clark-Case proviso, Senators would have to dis close publicly their income and assets, along with those of their families...
Other clashes seemed to be simpler cases of racial antagonism. The Springfield fight followed heckling by white students of Negro youths seeking service at a nearby cafe. In the Chicago suburb of Maywood, the failure of a student selection committee at Proviso East High to nominate a single Negro girl for homecoming queen set off a protest rally in which some 500 youths hurled bottles at police...
...conference to bat out the differences between the House and Senate bills, the Senate was represented by all conservatives--Eastland (D-Miss), Ervin (D-N.C.), McClellan (D-Ark.), Dirksen (R-Ill), and Hruska (R-Neb.). The committee made proceedings and hearings singular, and added the proviso that if the Attorney General had not begun searching for "subversives" in six months he would have to justify his inaction before Congress...
...similar bill reported to the House of Representatives would give the board new powers to investigate subversives, but the Senate voted to keep it substantially as it is, with one proviso: if the Attorney General does not refer any cases to it, it will go out of existence in January 1969. Whatever version emerges, it appears certain that, barring an unexpected presidential veto, SACB will live...
...year's level. But the Viet Nam war and a number of domestic programs such as highway construction and Medicare were specifically exempted from the ceiling. The second amendment, put forward by Ohio Republican Frank Bow, put an arbitrary limit of $131.5 billion on all spending with the proviso that Johnson could add to that figure only to meet new war costs. The effect of the bill would be to compel Johnson to gut such programs as educational aid, urban development, antipoverty operations and foreign...