Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senator added that he will attend fundraising events and ask constituents to vote against 1-2-3. "I hope to sway some votes," said Barrett...
Despite Gorbachev's original inclination to take quick and drastic action, he hesitated to go as far as some had demanded, and initiated the bargaining session that sharply reduced the scope of the emergency plan. After the vote, Gorbachev seemed to recognize that he had presided over a new chapter in Soviet history. "I think we've done the right thing," he said. Even the more moderate measures may help cool the rash of strikes. More important, one of Gorbachev's crucial reforms seemed to be working: an elected legislature had debated and bargained its way to a sensible compromise...
...House vote marked a truce between feuding Democrats John Dingell of Michigan, a dogged opponent of auto regulation, and California's Henry Waxman, a champion of even stricter standards for clean air. The compromise proposal would cut emissions of nonmethane hydrocarbons, a key ingredient in smog, which can now average no more than 0.41 gram per mile for a carmaker's fleet. The House action would place a limit of 0.25 gram per mile on all cars by 1996; the output of nitrogen oxide, another source of smog, would be required to fall from 1 gram per mile...
Ironically, some California air-quality officials have raised strong objections to last week's House vote. They complain that a fine-print , provision in the federal action would end California's right to impose even tougher standards on off-road vehicles such as lawn mowers, dune buggies and construction equipment, which account for an estimated 16% of the state's smog. Says a spokesman for the California Air Resources Board: "While the bill applauds California's leadership, it ties our hands to control pollution in our own backyard...
...breathe. Even corporate giants recognize that they can no longer simply dig in their heels and resist demands for clean air. Chrysler vice chairman Gerald Greenwald noted in August that automakers had hurt their credibility by stubbornly opposing most new regulations. And while GM's Stempel attacked the House vote last week, he acknowledged that the subcommittee had at least cleared up confusion over what the new tail-pipe standards would be. For all its past intransigence, Detroit may be ready to concede that compromise is a two-way street...