Word: pass
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...were clearly disgruntled that it had lasted so long; they yearned impatiently to break away from the capital and enjoy the holidays with the rest of the nation. Ambitious Senators were fighting to save or to kill bills on which their reputations were riding. Time was too short to pass even the measures that a majority clearly favored; in the crunch it was easy for a few men to thwart the will of the rest. At the same time, President Nixon angrily if belatedly joined the fray as some of his priority programs faced death; he berated the Senate...
While the parliamentary skirmishing degenerated into a morass of confusion in which nothing seemed certain to pass, the basic issues at stake were sharply etched. In order of diminishing intensity of feeling, they came down to a classic confrontation over free trade, a sweeping reform of federal welfare programs, funding of a supersonic jet transport aircraft, and limitations on the President's power to authorize U.S. military operations in Cambodia. With only a few more scheduled working days, this is how those issues stood...
TRADE. President Nixon had proposed, and the House had passed, new restrictions on textile imports, partly to repay such Southern states as North and South Carolina for support in his election to the presidency. But a band of liberal Senators, led by Oklahoma Democrat Fred Harris and Republicans Charles Percy of Illinois and Jacob Javits of New York, argued that such protectionism represents a historic reversal of U.S. trade policy and threatens to upset international markets. They vowed that it would not pass, and they were willing to talk it to death. The import quotas, moreover, were thrown into...
...four were appalled by the Senate's taking almost two months last summer to pass the Defense Procurement bill, the tendency to work a three-day week, and by the fact that Senators sometimes take the floor for windy speeches designed only for home consumption while national business has to wait. Plotting during dinners, the four honed their proposals. They then consulted their senatorial elders, mainly the two party leaders, Democrat Mike Mansfield and Republican Hugh Scott. "We didn't want them to think that this was a revolt by upstart freshmen," explained Schweiker. Mansfield and Scott encouraged...
Fran Tarkenton was apoplectic. Sportswriter Dick Schaap had given the New York Giants' quarterback a slim volume to pass the time on the New York-Boston jet. Tarkenton flipped the first few pages and wept through the last three chapters. Now, the night before the big game, the whole damn team was reading the thing with identical results. "Listen!" he telephoned Schaap. "This book is destroying the Giants just when we're supposed to be psyched up for the Patriots...