Word: recessing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly politics was in the air on Capitol Hill while Ford was away. Rushing toward a midsummer recess, the Democratic-dominated Congress broke the momentum of Ford's veto hold over legislation he opposes and challenged aspects of his foreign policy. Ford has vetoed no fewer than 36 bills, and the Congress has either accepted or failed to override all except four of those vetoes. But last week both the House and Senate easily nullified his veto of a health-services bill that provides $2 billion for such needs as nurses training, community mental-health centers and rape prevention...
...Senate subcommittee on Labor and Public Welfare is holding hearings on the controversial pay-back provisions, but last week broke for a recess until Labor...
...clause is intended to protect the workers in the event of an energy-saving extension of the two-week Christmas recess, during which employees normally take their vacations. In such a case the workers would receive full-time pay for any forced layoff time in excess of the two week recess...
...Three months is a generation in politics," Vice President Alben Barkley once observed, and as Democratic members of Congress returned to Washington this week from their holiday recess, they fervently hoped that Barkley's adage still held true. The 94th Congress was supposed to be a Democratic triumph, but in the past three months the session has turned into an almost unmitigated Democratic disaster because of a crushing succession of failures to overturn presidential vetoes. Nonetheless, the party's congressional leaders believe that time yet remains to salvage enough of their program to retrieve their self-esteem...
...enable Brasilia to develop nuclear arms. Meanwhile, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union are pushing ahead with the development of new weapons that could undermine whatever progress may be made at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), which are scheduled to resume in Geneva this week after a recess of nearly two months...