Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--House Speaker Jim Wright, reacting to growing public outrage, said yesterday the House would let a 51 percent congressional pay raise take effect next week but then vote to cut it back to "a decent raise" of 30 percent...
...raising objections and gathering evidence to back their views. Now MCAD must sort out the information and decide whether it has jurisdiction over the case and how it should rule. The state judicial body has given the case to its legal arm to review, according to spokesperson Judith K. Wright...
MCAD will probably settle the jurisdiction question and rule on the case at the same time, Wright says...
...plane's crew "never got it off the ground," said witness Vernon Wright. "The first thing I saw was just the mushroom of the smoke...
...place against the opposition of only a handful of legislators. New Hampshire Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey has called for an early Senate vote, followed by "public pressure on the House to hold a vote before the deadline." In the House, Wisconsin Republican Tom Petri has demanded that Speaker Jim Wright require a vote on the raises before the waiting period expires. "If we lack the courage to face an issue as clear cut as that of lining our own pockets," Petri asked, "how can we expect the public to have confidence in us on more complicated issues?" Petri's question...