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After a five-hour debate, House Speaker Tip O'Neill called for a vote on the bill. Those in favor shouted their votes louder than the opponents, and O'Neill announced that the ayes had it. At that moment, according to House procedure, a Congressman may request a roll call. But one of the bill's chief opponents, California Republican Paul McCloskey, was engaged in conversation and did not realize what had happened as O'Neill moved on to other motions...
...indictments on 35 of the fires that destroyed property worth $6 million and killed three people. Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti denounced the torch ring as "a conspiracy to burn down Suffolk County for profit." Added Stephen Delinsky, head of the state criminal bureau: "This is just the tip of the iceberg...
Apart from deregulation, the other differences between the Senate and House treatment of Carter's energy package point toward the likelihood that a handful of Senate and House conferees will determine the ultimate outcome. Responding to Speaker Tip O'Neill's expert prodding, the House had passed most of the Carter program intact-and in a single bill. But the Senate has been slicing it up, bit by bit, into a series of bills. The conference committee cannot be assembled until the Senate completes its multiple energy moves, and that could take several more weeks...
...Carter last March, noted that his advisers from down home tended to try to guess what he wanted to hear instead of giving him frank, sometimes critical analyses. Not much has changed over the months. Only in the last few days did Carter begin paying attention to House Speaker Tip O'Neill and to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who advised him to let Lance go rather than endanger his legislative program in Congress...
...Congress, his domestic programs are being carved up. The two leaders on Capitol Hill, Tip O'Neill and Bob Byrd, appear to sense a certain weakness in the President, and so they are assembling small fiefs around themselves. They agree with his programs-mostly. They want him to succeed-mostly. But they are not certain about him, and so they stand at arm's length, making sure they protect their own turf. A little of the power that Carter surely lost in the Lance affair was gathered in by Bob Byrd...