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Within hours, the House voted, 308-113, to override the veto. The margin was well above the two-thirds majority required, but it was thought unlikely that the Senate would go along when it considers the override after the Memorial Day recess...
...committee will present its findings to the Faculty at some point after summer recess, before the end of November. It will address all areas, i.e., graduate school recruitment, post doc, junior and senior faculty hiring...
...rebel leaders who signed the Sapoa agreement, a State Department official contended that the contras had signed the cease-fire on the assumption that it would win them speedy approval of more U.S. aid. "Had they not worked something out, they would have gone into the Easter recess without a penny," he said. "This way, at the very least, they keep their forces together for 60 more days...
...council was not consulted on the keg ban, however, because the administration enacted the policy while the council was in its January recess, he said. The College wanted the ban in effect then because officials anticipated large parties at the beginning of spring term, he said...
...pork-barrel expenditures included in the last omnibus spending bill, signed just before winter recess, range from the slightly humorous--$240,000 for a study of the damage done to macademia nuts by rats--to the seriously expensive--$25 million for an unneeded new airport in Fort Worth near the home territory Speaker of the House Jim Wright. In the several-thousand pages of an omnibus appropriations bill, these expenditures can be shielded from constituents, and congressmen can hide their support for these perks by claiming that they voted for the whole package, not individual appropriations...