Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thursday evening Lyndon staged a "Salute to Congress," his appreciation of the most productive session in its history. As it turned out, the House was too busy producing to adjourn in time, so that the curtain was 1½ hours late, and the State Department auditorium only one-fourth filled-most audibly with fuming congressional wives...
...Lyndon losing his touch? Not really. But as old Capitol Hill Veteran Johnson well knows, Congress grows balkier with every day a session drags on beyond Labor Day-and adjournment is not yet in sight. While home rule for Washington is an endlessly controversial topic, congressional unrest undoubtedly contributed to defeat of Lyndon's bill...
Concluded House Democratic Leader Carl Albert: "Home rule is a dead duck this session...
...further this high-minded ideal, however, Wallace needs to be reelected, though the Alabama constitution expressly prohibits a Governor from succeeding himself. So last week Wallace convened a special session of his legislature to change the constitution and bought 30 minutes of television and radio time-with state funds-to tell the folks all about...
...confused debate followed, during which the FDP group charged that previous understandings were being broken, that electing officers before the hearing of committee reports or the adoption of the constitution was out of order, and that many delegates driving to the convention would not arrive till the afternoon session...