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...bill, aimed at prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in employment, housing or the granting of credit, passed the state House of Representatives just before last summer's legislative recess. Last Monday, it won a major procedural victory as the Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading passed it on to a vote before the fullSenate...
Eager to flee Washington last week for a monthlong recess, Congress worked well past its deadline, arguing over how to finance a ten-year, $166 billion federal rescue plan for more than 500 insolvent savings and loans. The busted thrifts are losing about $20 million a day. When a compromise with the White House threatened to unravel Friday, it looked as if the lawmakers would leave town without solving the problem...
...Congress adjourned last week for its August recess, the capital-gains-cut bandwagon gained momentum. Amazingly, Republicans and conservative Democrats, who make up a narrow majority of the House Ways and Means Committee, rallied around a scheme even more shortsighted than the President...
...well aware, there is no such thing as an apolitical political appointment. The Bush Administration, which hopes to attract more black voters to the G.O.P., certainly had that goal in mind when it selected a black for the civil rights post. It has not ruled out giving Lucas a "recess appointment" to the job while Congress is out of session, which would allow him to serve until the end of 1990 without being confirmed. But if the Administration goes that route, it is sure to anger the Senate, endangering the President's future appointments and proposals. When the Senate returns...
...Recess Success: Humorist Will Rogers was once quoted as saying that no one's life or property is safe as long as Congress is in session. As true as that may be, no one is better off than President Bush now that the federal legislature has gone on its much-anticipated summer recess...