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Senator Sam Ervin, co-author of the bill, proudly calls it "one of the most important pieces of legislation considered during my service in the Senate." Republican Senator Charles Percy, another coauthor, claims that it is "one of the historic turning points in the evolution of our institutions." The bill has been hailed by many liberal Senators, notably Maine's Edmund Muskie and California's Alan Cranston, as well as by such conservatives as Virginia's Harry Byrd Jr. and Tennessee's William Brock...
With this kind of broad agreement, the Senate last week passed by the remarkable vote of 80 to 0 a bill that may well turn out to be as revolutionary as Ervin and Percy claim. It would for the first time in modern history make Congress an active partner with the White House in drawing up the federal budget, instead of merely approving or denying presidential proposals or developing isolated and improvised programs on its own. A similar version of the measure swept through the House last December by a vote of 386 to 23. When the differences are ironed...
Woodward also said yesterday that Post reporting indirectly contributed to the decision of Sen. Sam J. Ervin (D-N.C.) to form the Senate Watergate Committee...
...bill this week that will at last make the Government liable to pay damage claims if its law enforcement agents, while carrying out their duties, commit such offenses as assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, or raiding without a proper warrant. The provision is the stepchild of Sam Ervin, the Senate's doughty champion of constitutional rights. Ervin was aided by Paul Verkuil, a professor at the University of North Carolina, in gathering the evidence that convinced Congress to adopt the provision. Says Verkuil: "All of a sudden the Federal Government is going to have to be much more...
HALDEMAN gave his account in testimony to the Ervin committee last July 30. Said Haldeman: "He [Dean] indicated concern about two problems, money and clemency. He said that Colson had said something to Hunt about clemency . . . The President confirmed that he could not offer clemency, and Dean agreed . . . He also reported on a current Hunt blackmail threat. He said Hunt was demanding $120,000 or else he would tell about the seamy things he had done for Ehrlichman. The President pursued this in considerable detail, obviously trying to smoke out what was really going on . . . He asked how much money...