Word: rodino
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Conservatives were also pleased by the Administration's handling of their call to ban busing as a method of desegregating schools. On the same day he sent his letter on school prayer to the Senate, Attorney General William French Smith notified House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino that careful examination of a bill designed to prohibit lower federal courts from ordering busing plans "indicates that [its provisions] are constitutional." This was also a hollow victory for the New Right: although the bill has passed the Senate, it is expected to die in the Democrat-controlled House...
...Salvador position, and perhaps its nuclear stance, at least partly because of the Catholic opposition. But the prelates also find themselves fighting some of their best-known laity, especially Secretary of State Alexander Haig and, on abortion, House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino and Senator Edward Kennedy...
Anderson called for "practical considerations--those which affect "the real world." She urged adoption of the proposed Kennedy-Rodino bill, which requires registration of handguns and prosecution of those in illegal possession of them...
Many members of Congress, including Judiciary's Rodino and Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, the chairman of the House Banking Committee, see a disturbing connection among high interest rates, sluggish growth and the merger explosion. In the bidding battle for Conoco alone, they note, the contestants lave lined up some $20 billion in standby bank credit. Though much of the financing comes from European banks, many economists and executives contend that heavy loan demands from the merger candidates help keep the U.S. money supply tight and make it more difficult for a small business to finance new machinery...
...line with a key decision by the Supreme Court, which last year upheld the Mobile, Ala., system of a citywide election for commissioners. The court ruled that opponents of the plan had not proved that it was "a purposeful device to further racial discrimination." The Kennedy-Mathias-Rodino bill would allow the Justice Department and courts to continue to consider a law's impact...