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...months of congressional scrutiny, the fate of the 283-page program is now in the hands of a joint conference committee. Initially, the committee had hoped to finish its task by Christmas, but with 100-odd separate items in the bill, work is proceeding slowly. The committee decided to recess for Thanksgiving week, and key Congressmen have begun hinting that some of the provisions may have to be broken out as separate bills and presented to Carter in the new year...
...This schedule is in effect during the Academic Thanksgiving recess, Christmas recess, Spring recess and Summer
Congressional staffers said they expect the conference committee bill will return to the floor for a final vote before the election recess...
...flung lobbyists were well-briefed and coordinated. Preparations began just after the House turned down deregulation and passed the Carter energy bill before the summer recess. Recalled Carl Suchocki of the Natural Gas Supply Committee: "Word went out: we have to get out to the grass roots, and we have one month to do it." Added Foster: "Few of our people went to the beach in August. They stayed at their desks through the smog and the heat...
There is universal agreement that the best forum for any negotiations would be the U.N.-sponsored Middle East peace conference at Geneva, called to order for only two days in December 1973 and then recessed because Israel was about to hold general elections. The conference, co-chaired by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, has never reconvened; during the recess, Henry Kissinger eased the Russians out of the picture temporarily, to conduct his own series of step-by-step negotiations involving Israel, Syria and Egypt...