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...then the Council decided to recommit the petition to the Finance Committee, and the whole process of hearings and arguments between the Coop and Dietz, who is a part owner of a building on Palmer St., probably will begin again...
Finally, by a vote of 48 to 39, the Senate adopted a Dirksen motion to recommit the whole business to the Rules Committee. That body will now consider a substitute resolution, also offered by Ev, that would create an ethics commission to study conflict-of-interest problems in every branch of the Federal Government. It was hardly likely that any angels would get shot down soon...
...Russo '65 of Eliot House. Director of HCUA's abortive room heat study, Ellis has expressed interest in expansion of the Council's role in educational adult. He was instrumental in last week's defeat of the Executive Committee's HSA Report, after he co-authored a proposal to recommit the report to committee for further study...
Fits on the Floor. When the bill reaches the House floor, it will be treated under a "closed rule" barring floor amendments and limiting debate to two days. Even so, says Byrnes, "we will give them fits on the floor." Once voting begins, Byrnes can move to recommit the bill to Ways and Means to reconsider his "Puritan ethic" amendment. But the Administration is counting on mustering enough votes to defeat such a motion and send the bill on to the Senate...
Behind the Setback. On the day of the showdown, the Administration expected to win. But when the decisive vote came on a Republican motion to recommit the bill (send it back to the Agriculture Committee), the result was a stunning Administration defeat: 215 to 205 in favor of recommitting. Republicans voted almost unanimously against the bill-the lone Republican to vote for it (that is, against recommitting it) was Nebraska's Phil Weaver, a lame duck recently defeated in his primary race for renomination. But the Republicans could not have defeated the bill by themselves: they were joined...