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...Congress, the Boston-based Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign has won a breakthrough in its tight to bring nuclear proliferation under control Last week. after intense lobbying by the Campaign Sens. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) and Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore) and Reps Edward Markey (D-Mass) and Silvio Conte (R-Mass) introduced resolution in their respective chambers calling for a freeze on the arms race...
...Gerry Studds (D-Mass) is sponsoring a bill declaring the certification null and void and requiring Congress to certify that the conditions have been met before military aid can be sent. This bill has over 70 co-sponsors in the House Sen Paul Tsongas (D-Mass) and Rep. Silvio Conte (R-Mass.) have co-sponsored a bill that would institute an official United States policy calling for political negotiations with the involvement of all parties. In addition to these legislative initiatives, members of Congress, including some traditional conservatives have begun voicing their opposition to U.S. military aid. For example...
HOLYOKE, Mass.--Police arrested 45 people, including 20 University of Massachusetts at Amherst students for trespassing after notice" and disorderly conduct last week during a protest sit-in-art U.S. Representative Silvio Conte's office in Holyoke...
...party, rather than the process. Senate Democratic Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia termed the veto "a manufactured Shootout." House Speaker Tip O'Neill was unusually personal, scoffing at Reagan: "He knows less about the budget than any President in my lifetime." But Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte of the House Appropriations Committee put the blame more broadly on Congress, declaring, "We're the laughingstock of the nation." In fact, there was plenty of blame for all to share...
Individual Congressmen were stroked too. Oklahoma Republican Mickey Edwards reminded the White House that he had proposed a candidate to be appointed a U.S. marshal in his state, and Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte brought up the name of his choice for an Agriculture Department post. Both were assured that their requests were all but approved. Administration strategists even decided to say nothing about their stand on extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act until a budget bill was on Reagan's desk to be signed into law. That issue had little to do with federal spending, of course...