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...This is a unique instance in the history of arms control," said Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill last week. Perhaps so, but the occasion was also a murky one. After more than 40 hours of amendment-filled debate spread over seven tedious weeks, the House finally voted on its contentious call for a nuclear arms freeze by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., a measure opposed by the Reagan Administration. The tally on the nonbinding resolution: 278 in favor, 149 against. Confusingly enough, both pro-and anti-freeze legislators claimed victory...
After he led the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in its vote to cut off covert military aid to Nicaragua last week, Committee Chairman Edward P. Boland, a Massachusetts Democrat, asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a fellow Bay Stater, to authorize a closed-door session for the eventual floor debate by the full House. O'Neill happily obliged. The next day, Massachusetts Congressman Edward J. Markey helped dynamite a six-day legislative logjam holding up a House vote on a nuclear-freeze resolution by persuading O'Neill to engineer a virtually unprecedented change in House...
...unelected Nicaraguan government to charge that we seek their overthrow, when they are doing everything that they can to bring down the elected government of El Salvador." Republicans stood and cheered, exhorting their colleagues across the aisle to "Stand up! Stand up!" After sustained applause, House Speaker Tip O'Neill turned, smiling, to Vice President George Bush, and they joined the standing ovation...
...Enterprise did not move. In a maneuver akin to righting an unbalanced rowboat, the ship's crew was ordered to assemble on the carrier's port side. Their combined weight, coupled with the shifting of water in the vessel's ballast tanks, was meant to tip the ship in hopes of freeing it. But the keel, which normally requires 36 ft. of water for safe clearance, remained stuck. Only with the help of the outgoing tide did the Enterprise finally break loose from its unwanted mooring and finish its long journey home...
...There are only two Democrats who really bug Reagan," says a presidential aide. "One is Tip O'Neill, and the other is that Congressman who keeps talking about Social Security...