Word: repeals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Zorza and Hengen are also planning a general canvassing for Senator Charles E. Goodell's (R.N.Y.) S-3000 Resolution, which calls for complete withdrawal from Vietnam by Dec. 1, 1970. In addition, they hope to recruit workers for peace candidates and to begin a repeal-the-draft campaign...
...houses are left empty partly because the role of slum landlord has become less and less profitable. New York City landlords cite the abandoned buildings as proof of a financial squeeze, and reason enough for the city to repeal its rent-control law, which has frozen rents at below-market levels since...
...FEBRUARY 9 at the Harvard Law School Forum, Senator Charles McC. Mathias, a freshman Republican from Maryland, argued for the repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. His own measure (SJ 166) would accomplish this as well as repeal "the mortmain of past Congressional resolutions that have been interpreted as relinquishing broad authority to the executive to intervene militarily around the world." Mathias was voicing the growing eagerness of the Senate to restrict the sway of the President in foreign affairs...
...catalyst for defining a new relationship between the executive and legislative branches. Growing bolder each year, the Senate has taken tentative steps to curtail effectively the disposal of American troops overseas-first by the passage of the "national commitments" resolution in June and now by Mathias' attempt to repeal the so-called Cold War Resolution...
More significant than the repeal of the Cold War Resolutions is the breakup of the "bipartisan" coalition which has governed American foreign policy since World War II. Dissent on the left has either allowed or forced liberal Senators to split with the coalition. In former days, the Mathias resolution would have seemed treasonable. Congress feared to speak openly with the President because to do so would jeopardize "major national interests" or "let the troops down." Today Senators can even imply, if not boldly assert, that the President has usurped the Constitution...