Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Petitioners request that a recall provision be installed to insure that house committee votes represent residents' interests--if one third of Currier objects to a decision then the vote should be nullified. They also argue that meetings are not posted far enough in advance for house residents to be aware of agendas for upcoming meetings...
...bill, which passed through the Senate by an 87-3 vote, would create the oft-discussed cabinet-level position of drug "czar." It would also allow the death penalty against drug "kingpins," stregnthen penalties for both the use and sale of illicit drugs, and permit random testing for transportation and nuclear-industry workers...
...using sleazy, dishonest, strong-arm tactics with the House of Representative as you have been with the divestment movement on your campus, we wouldn't need to waste so much time on illegal, covert activities like the Iran-Contra deal. Golly, if you could convince Congress that taking a vote on important issues was harmful to the democratic process (like you did to your overseers last spring) I'd make you chief of staff...
...Some people vote less because they're less pleased with the choice offered," Verba added. "It is ironic that those who need government most are least likely to participate...
...vote of 498-107, members of the Cambridge Teachers Association (CTA) yesterday approved a new contract that will give them salary increases of 19 percent over a three-year period...