Word: recommitting
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...Warnke's nightmare becomes fact, the U.S. will be faced with an unenviable choice. With its logistical base already established, it can reinforce its troops and recommit itself to another round in a war that many think has gone on too long already. Or it can evacuate all Americans and let South Viet Nam stand or fall alone. Neither alternative is reassuring to Richard Nixon, the man responsible for extricating the U.S. from its longest...
...America. Many saw the unleashing of a dark, latent psychosis in the national character, a stain that had its start with the first settlement of a hostile continent. For the young people, in particular, who had been persuaded by the new politics of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy to recommit themselves to the American electoral system, the assassination seemed to confirm all their lingering suspicions that society could not be reformed by democratic means...
...demand of Congress. This is what we should do as a legislative body." Majority Leader Carl Albert scurried about the floor trying to hold wavering Democrats in line. He spoke to some 30, but won over only three. In the end, the House voted 202 to 182 to recommit the resolution to committee. Thirty-four Democrats, including Mills, helped the Republicans trounce the Administration...
...against a Republican attempt to recommit medicare. House vote...
...last week's instance, the Republican alternative offered $995 million not just to Appalachia but to all 50 states. That was defeated 152 to 65. which was demoralizing enough. Even more humiliating was the outcome of a Republican move to recommit the bill with instructions to substitute the G.O.P. plan. Of 136 Republicans voting on the motion, 44 opposed it-an astonishing defection rate of 33%. At the same time, the G.O.P. effort wrought a rare show of Democratic unity, with only eight out of 287 defecting...