Word: sessions
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...more than the required three-fifths of the Senate, Abourezk and Metzenbaum had introduced no fewer than 508 amendments. Each amendment could thus be called up for a time-consuming vote. The Senate had run through only about 200 of them-and seven days, including one 37-hour session-when serious moves began among the Senate leadership to curtail the filibuster. The two filibuster leaders said they would end the talkathon if Carter asked them to do so. But Byrd advised the White House to stay out of the Senate's business. He would take care of the filibuster...
Byrd laid out his scheme at a meeting of key Democratic Senators and Republican Howard Baker, the minority leader. Byrd proposed calling up the remaining 300 or so amendments and immediately getting them ruled out of order. The group decided that Mondale should preside over the session, reading rulings from a prepared script and ensuring that Byrd could hold the floor without interruption while the amendments were being killed...
Hellman will lead a question and answer session rather than lecture, in the South House's Cabot Hall living room on October 25, Jerome E. Fischer, executive assistant to the master of South House said yesterday...
Last week's unscheduled session at the White House was convened at Gromyko s request. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance dashed back to Washington from the U.N. General Assembly session in Manhattan. Gromyko brought the Politburo's approval of a formula aimed at breaking the SALT deadlock. From the White House meeting and Vance-Gromyko talks in New York City later in the week, the following prospective compromise for SALT II has emerged...
...half proposal was put forward by Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal-unenthusiastically. The former chairman of Bendix Corp. at first sought to defend the expense-account lunch. But in a long session in the White House earlier this year, Blumenthal and his aides came away convinced that Carter's moral conviction compelled him to take action against what he believes to be an unjustified excess...