Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Halloween, looked like Comedienne Phyllis Diller in a hurricane -Johnson good-humoredly assured her that while he did not concur with her "legal analysis" of the bill, he thanked her for the opportunity to defend "one of the most important pieces of legislation that we can act upon this session." Asked for his comment on some G.O.P. criticism that his Asian trip was timed to coincide with the elections-the kind of question that has sometimes in the past led to a petty tirade on "Who are the critics? Where are they saying that?"-L.B.J. responded mildly: "I just think...
...ought," mused House Minority Whip Les Arends, "to pass a law to abolish the last couple of weeks of the session." In the frenetic atmosphere of the waning 89th Congress, such a bill might even stand a good chance of passage...
After an astonishingly productive first session in 1965, this year the 89th rested -all but inert-on its laurels. Presented with 25 major bills in early 1966, it had taken final action on just seven as last week began. The crunch was all the crueler because 35 Senators and all 435 Representatives are up for re-election Nov. 8. Some from nearby states shuttled almost daily between home-state campaigning and Capitol Hill; others with particularly tough races had not turned up in Washington for weeks; some lived too far away to do anything but clench their teeth and stay...
...always in a session's last days, there was a deluge of what Les Arends calls "the chaff and chicken feed." Last week the Congress had to deal with bills that covered such relatively trivial matters as the burgeoning birth rate of jellyfish, tariffs on imported bagpipes, a $450,000 appropriation to improve sanitation facilities for Wisconsin's Menominee Indians, a measure to conserve fur seals and protect sea otters...
Yesterday's meeting was a question and answer session between Peabody and the Student Democrats. Representatives from 31 collegiate Young Democrats' clubs, including Harvard, attended. According to one official the meeting was arranged to clear up some misunderstanding that the Young Democrats might have about Peabody's positions and also to solidify student support...