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...motions that really shape a bill, without their constituents knowing their positions; only their final votes on bills as amended were made public. Now, the possibility of being held accountable to the voters back home is a reality-and a sobering one to judge by what ensued on the SST amendment...
Slowly, the members filed up the aisles to cast their votes, putting green ballots against the SST funding into a box beside Teller Yates, red votes to keep the plane alive into a box supervised by a pro-SST teller, California Democrat John McFall. The green line looked longer, and Yates, a normally gregarious man whose face was furrowed with fatigue from the long fight, broke into a grin. "Green cards here," he shouted happily, as he saw that victory was his. The vote was announced as 217 to 203 against the plane. In the mandatory final vote the funds...
Center Stage. The new procedure was a major reason for the House turnabout. Many wavering Congressmen apparently were convinced that most of their constituents opposed the plane and posed more of a threat than the SST's lobbyists. The recorded voting also discouraged Representatives from staying away, which tends to strengthen the liberal forces, since liberals traditionally have been less conscientious about tending to the daily business of the Congress than conservatives. This year's House also contains 56 new members, and of these, 33 voted against the plane. The teller vote was not along party lines. Voting...
While the House rejection of the SST was led by Yates, Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte and Wisconsin Democrat Henry Reuss, the plane's most persistent and effective critic, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, loomed large. The stubborn Democrat (see box, page 13) has fought the plane from its inception; he kept feeding its House critics valuable information and staged a last-minute press conference to complain that the Administration was trying to gag one of the plane's scientific opponents: Dr. Gio Gori, of the National Cancer Institute who first agreed, but later refused, to testify about the potential...
...whether to go along with the House in killing the aircraft. It voted no last year, and the latest House vote is a psychological lift for the plane's opponents, but there are new faces in the Senate too, and new pressures. So the fate of the SST is still in doubt. If the Senate votes to continue funds, some kind of compromise-now wholly unpredictable-would have to be worked out with the House. If the Senate continues its opposition, the Government would seem to be out of the supersonic-transport business, at least for a time. Then...