Word: rodino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Political partisanship flared openly in the House Judiciary Committee last week, shaking the fragile facade of impartiality that had enhanced its impeachment inquiry. A surprisingly tough Chairman Peter Rodino pushed the committee into making critical procedural decisions that should ensure a July conclusion of its historic investigation of Richard Nixon's presidency...
House leaders, meanwhile, were moving with unusual efficiency to clear the chamber's agenda for a full-scale airing of impeachment charges beginning the first week of August. The House has been acting fast on major funding legislation, in anticipation of a pro-impeachment recommendation from the Rodino committee. The leaders expect the House to vote on the articles by Aug. 23. Assuming that a majority of the House approves charges of impeachable conduct, the Senate should be able to try the President this year...
...Rodino, 65, attempted in procedural disputes to be more the committee's chairman than its ranking Democrat. Thus he was long able to maintain a high degree of bipartisanship. In this situation, party leadership on a day-to-day basis fell to the senior Democrat, Harold Donohue of Massachusetts. But he is 73 and feeling his age. By default, Jack Brooks of Texas, 51, became a central figure on the Democratic side...
Donohue rarely spoke during the closed sessions and was known to get confused during votes. On one occasion, after he mistakenly voted in favor of what promised to be a close motion, Rodino had to correct him by firmly announcing: "The member votes...
...that could then be worked out in detail by the bureaucrats. Additionally, the Moscow summit will undoubtedly produce several lesser accords, and every day will probably see one much-photographed session at which the two leaders will jointly affix their signatures to some document. "A signing a day keeps Rodino at bay," quips one White House...