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...most part, Theroux seems to share the attitudes he describes in a character in "The Man on the Clapham Omnibus," a member of the peerage who inherited along with his title debts which have made him poor and bitter...
...question is the Boland Amendment, a little-noticed rider tacked onto an omnibus Government-spending bill last December. Ironically, it was adopted at the urging of the Administration, as a substitute for a far more restrictive measure proposed by Democrat Thomas Harkin of Iowa. Harkin's rider would have banned U.S. support of any "military activities in or against Nicaragua"; the CIA argued that this would prevent necessary covert actions aimed at reducing the flow of arms supplied by the Nicaraguan government to Marxist-led guerrillas in El Salvador. So the House accepted, 411 to 0, a rider offered...
Nobody wants to clamp the damper of crabbed age on the irreverent enthusiasms of youth, but always there comes a point. Lot's just take the omnibus cheer you mention. "Asshole, asshole, midget, sieve! and apply a little analysis...
...session bills traditional targets for pork-barrel amendments? "They're the last trains out of the station," explained Massachusetts Congressman James Shannon. Normal debate and decorum were all but abandoned. Some of the Senate amendments to the omnibus spending bill were handwritten. Even after the Senate voted on the amendments, few members knew what action had been taken. When the final 300-page spending bill emerged from the House and Senate conference committee, pasted together and hastily photocopied only 35 copies were circulated to the 435 House members voting on the measure Not that it mattered...
...omnibus bill drafted by Senate Democrats to combine the highway and public works programs and finance them not by raising the gasoline tax but by reducing the income tax cuts scheduled to go into effect July 1. This $17.9 billion plan will be offered as a substitute for the House Democrats' highway-gas tax program, and will be defeated, as its sponsors know perfectly well. Their aim is to tell constituents that they voted to create 650,000 jobs, a grossly inflated estimate...