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...artifice is the rule. Some Democrats favor retroactivity: members already at the limit would be forced out immediately. Others of both parties call for exempting sitting members altogether. Gingrich's dance is the most intricate. Newt, himself a 16-year veteran, says he wants a 12-years-and-you're-out provision, whereas most limit supporters favor a six-year cap. What's possible, then, is numerous House votes on varying schemes, with none garnering the 290 yeas needed. "That's the idea," concedes a G.O.P. Congressman. "You fulfill the contract's promise to vote on the issue -- there...
...better than nothing. After weeks of intensive and often acrimonious negotiation, the National Hockey League's owners and players hammered out a six-year pact and brought the sport's 103-day lockout to an end. Fans will get a curtailed 48-game season (instead of the traditional 84). Although the owners failed to win a salary cap, they did get some restrictions on the eligibility of free agents...
...Harvard alumni will have the opportunity to vote on the Overseers by mail this spring. The five appointees, who will serve six-year terms, will be announced at Commencement
...oaths of office -- they will begin changing how Congress does business, starting with cutting the number of committees and their staffs by one-third. From there, in a series of rapid-fire votes with 20-minute intervals of debate, the House will put new budget procedures into place; put six-year term limits on committee chairmen; ban members from voting by proxy at committee sessions they do not attend; require committees to open their meetings to the public; require a three-fifths majority to approve tax increases; hire an outside auditor to hunt out waste, fraud and abuse; and pass...
...case of U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton and Bryant v. Hill, which will be the first tests of the constitutionality of such limits. The cases involve a constitutional amendment passed by Arkansas voters in 1992 that limits U.S. Representatives to three two-year terms and Senators to two six-year terms. The amendment in question states, "The people of Arkansas find and declare that elected officials who remain in office too long become preoccupied with re-election and ignore their duties as representatives of the people...