Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amendment, originally sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), was cleared by the Senate last Friday in a tumultuous debate which ended with a 65-31 vote for modified limitations on national arts funding. A House-Senate conference committee also passed a nearly identical version last week...
...final vote on the issue will take place later this fall, when both houses must vote to approve the final conference report...
Isaacson said she believes that senators have tired of debating the bill, and that the ruling by Bulger, a staunch opponent of the bill in past years, expresses an overall desire to bring the bill to a vote...
WAIT. I am having second thoughts. Perhaps Mobuto is not that bad after all. He claims to be very popular among his own people. In 1984, after making failure to vote punishable by law, his party received 99.16 percent of the vote in general elections. Of course, no one else was listed on the ballot, but that is still an impressive outcome...
Apartheid establishes a racially segregated society in which the 28 million Blacks have no vote in national affairs. The 5 million whites control the economy and maintain separate districts, schools and health services...