Word: requesting
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State Sen. Michael LoPresti filed the bill by request on behalf of Chung. Because she filed the bill at a late date, LoPresti did not have enough time to study it and decide whether to sponsor it personally, Richard J. Sader, LoPresti's legislative aide said yesterday...
...There is a stigma attached to a bill filed by request, because it doesn't indicate support on the part of the senator or representative, Chung says, adding "On the other hand, it doesn't indicate non-support either." The committee plans to announce tomorrow whether it finds the bill "favorable," "unfavorable," or necessary to study further...
...asked the University for help last semester, but my request got lost in red tape," Aziz Banayan, an Iranian student at the Graduate School of Design, said yesterday. "They told me the situation in Iran hadn't gotten bad enough yet," he added...
...Moscow, Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov assailed China's "dangerous provocation" and accused Peking of trying to "plunge the world into a war." The U.N.'s Security Council prepared to meet in urgent session, at Washington's request, to deal with the Chinese invasion as well as the earlier Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia...
TRIBE'S MEMO outlines the various procedural questions a convention might pose and points out that the Constitution does not say where power to resolve them lies. They include whether a state can withdraw its request for a convention, what possible time limit there might be on a state's request, how to choose the delegates and apportion votes in the convention, and whether the convention should refuse to propose an amendment it was summoned to consider. Although the Constitution never mentions these questions, there is no reason to expect Congress will meet serious opposition to an act outlining...