Word: sessions
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...decision to gamble so much on energy-in such a fulminant style-was made at a two-hour Wednesday-afternoon White House strategy session that included top Carter aides and Vice President Walter Mondale. The participants were painfully aware that Carter needed a quick pick-me-up. His Administration seemed to have lost direction. Some people were talking about a one-term presidency. Two weeks ago, an NBC poll had given the President a discouraging 46% approval rating (down from 60% in February). Now Harris was out with figures that showed even more slippage: a 66% negative rating...
...understand each other." So said Panama's General Omar Torrijos Herrera last week, soon after he emerged from a 105-minute session with Jimmy Carter in the White House. It was no idle remark. Just how the two leaders under stood the meaning of certain key elements of the Panama Canal treaties had become a crucial question in Carter's struggle to sell the pacts to the Senate and a still skeptical U.S. public. By week's end, with the aid of a three-paragraph "statement of understanding," Carter seemed to have dealt deftly with the dispute...
...vote was a private thing and that I'd never have to tell anybody how I voted." The judge then told her she would have to go to jail for contempt, and a bailiff handcuffed her and held her in a waiting room for the rest of the session. When another illegal voter, Diane Lazinsky, 27, also refused to disclose how she had voted, the judge postponed the case and threatened to jail both women. Michigan's court of appeals last week ordered Judge Kelley to wait while it pondered an American Civil Liberties Union brief defending...
While continuing to shift the scenery about backstage, the Carter Administration last week announced another delay in raising the curtain on its anxiously awaited tax-reform program. The news came from a weary Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, after a grueling five-hour White House session on tax options in which the President and his top economic aides failed to resolve a number of key issues...
After the emotion-fraught session that broke the filibuster, the rest of the week's actions in the Senate seemed anticlimactic. But they were far from that. For one thing, Byrd and Baker quickly appointed informal committees to propose changes in Rule 22, now shot through with procedural holes. The outcome could have considerable impact on the Senate's jealously guarded tradition of unlimited speech. Then there was the energy bill itself. The day after the filibuster was killed, so was Carter's proposal for keeping price controls on natural gas. While deregulation is all but certain...