Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Republicans, led by Assistant Minority Leader Alan Simpson of Wyoming, countered that strategy by demanding quorum calls, then vacating the chamber so the 51 required to continue business would be lacking. Byrd retaliated by ordering the sergeant at arms to corral any Republicans he could find. While Packwood took his arrest with good humor, he complained, "We work on comity around here. You can't do business on brute force." Republican Arlen Specter of Pennyslvania charged excitedly that the seizure of Senators "smacks of Nazi Germany and Communist Russia...
...vote came as the chamber worked on a bill which would require that Congress be notified about all covert actions within 48 hours after they start...
Senate leaders had been hoping to pass the bill yesterday, but the chamber became bogged down in a lengthy and unresolved debate about a pair of unrelated issues. That blocked a final vote until after the Senate returns March...
...host of amendments were considered yesterday, most of them Republican-sponsored and most of them defeated during debate in a near-empty chamber...
They should certainly not be invited to the same dinner party. Even the Senate chamber is a bit confined for George Bush and Robert Dole. For that matter, the entire country sometimes seems too small a place to absorb the personal antagonisms of the two front runners for the Republican presidential nomination...