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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, one of the Administration's bitterest foes in previous energy fights, in co-sponsoring a bill to overrule Carter and extend price controls for two years. With less than five weeks remaining before Congress's Memorial Day break, the bill, which requires a majority vote in both the House and Senate, stands little chance of passage...
Since decontrol appears inevitable, the real scrap will be over Carter's tax proposal. Not only must both the House Ways and Means Committee and the generally pro-industry Senate Finance Committee agree on its details, but after that, the full House and Senate must also vote on the tax. Says a key member of the Senate Energy Committee, Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston: "There are almost as many views of what is a fair tax and what its proper uses would be as there are members of Congress...
...Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would forbid discrimination in jobs, housing, public facilities or federally aided programs on the basis of "affectional or sexual orientation," as well as race or religion. It has little chance of passage this year. In the future, each side will probably win a vote here and there, but in the nation as a whole the gays and the anti-gays seem to have fought each other to a political standstill...
Sullivan accused the University of "attempting to alienate Harvard students from the community." Harvard has consistently tried to keep students from voting in Cambridge, because the kind of students who would register here would vote against the Harvard line," Sullivan said...
...ROTC vote, however, defused a great deal of opposition within the student body. The next day, another mass meeting at the stadium decided, by a vast majority, to suspend the strike for a week and the strike never resumed...