Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the House could barely muster enough members to pass its own recess resolution, the Senate was in full session, with members of two committees thumbing their noses respectively at their colleagues in the House and their leader in the White House...
...form of isolationism. For four days, Democratic floor managers steered the bill through an obstacle course of debate and dozens of amend ments, virtually all of them designed to trim foreign aid funds or tie strings to their use. On the fourth night the House went into marathon session...
...similarity of educational problems, a Roman Catholic priest has declared that "never again should a major report on education be done separately by the World Council and the Roman Catholic Church." Catholics and Protestants will be facing each other across conference tables repeatedly over the coming months, including a session with Marxist theoreticians in Western Europe next Spring to mull over common social concerns...
Mills's committee will continue its hearings until the Labor Day recess, then withdraw into executive session to decide whether, politically as well as economically, the time and the season are right for a tax boost. The bill that emerges will probably call for an increase of at most 6%, far less than the President now deems necessary but the very amount that he prescribed in his budget message last January...
...Father Murray's views came triumphantly into their own with the wave of aggiornamento begun by Pope John XXIII and carried out after a fash ion in Vatican II. Despite the Curia's success in keeping him out of the first council session, he was on hand as an expert for the second, and when the bishops rose to applaud the passage of the declaration on religious liberty, which confirmed the right of all men to freedom of conscience in worship, many of them felt that the applause was really for John Courtney Murray...