Word: voting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the exchange was over, he drifted toward Hatch's desk and good-naturedly bantered with him for a few minutes.) This day, Kennedy merely cast his vote, for emergency financial aid to help the poor and elderly pay their energy bills. He then returned to his office for more work on pending legislation, until it was time to go home, at 7:30 p.m. As usual, he did not leave the Dirksen building for lunch. His fare: soup and a salad with low-calorie dressing, in keeping with the diet that holds his 6-ft. 1-in. frame down...
...President made a major pitch for the women's vote by staging a White House rally for the Equal Rights Amendment, a cause Carter has long supported...
...arms pact with Moscow "is in our national interest" and could "help diminish the potential for nuclear destruction." Though widely anticipated, this clear-cut endorsement gave SALT II a badly needed boost. Without Byrd's active support, the treaty would have little chance of winning the two-thirds vote required for Senate approval. To be sure, passage still remains uncertain. But now Byrd will be using his proven talents as a cloakroom cajoler and persuader on the undecided Senators; among them he hopes to find the dozen or so additional votes that SALT II seems to need...
When the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court meet to discuss and vote on cases on Friday mornings, they begin with 'he simple ritual of shaking hands. Then they sit down to decide on some of the nation's most sensitive, sometimes most divisive issues. No reporter, no lobbyist, no aide, not even a messenger is allowed in the paneled conference room. The Justices are left alone to argue the law, their principles, their consciences. Theirs is not an abstract debate: comfortably hazy concepts like ''liberty'' and ''equality'' must...
Each Supreme Court Justice, from the most junior to the most senior, has an equal voice and vote on each decision. The Chief Justice, or ''the Chief,'' as he is called, is primus inter pares-first among equals. At conference, the Chief begins the discussion of each case by describing the issues as well as his own views. Warren was known for declaring his opinions clearly and strongly at the outset, cutting through legalisms to ask persistently, ''Is it right? Is it fair?'' Burger is more tentative. Some of his colleagues wonder...