The Nation - News from May 7, 1985
With about 20 hours of the legally required 50 hours of debate on the fiscal 1986 budget resolution left to go, neither Senate Democrats nor Republicans were ready to reveal their strategy. Thus, they let the official clock run and considered only unrelated, non-binding resolutions. “What we need to do is eat up the clock,” Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) told reporters. “There are still 20 hours left, and no one’s going to do anything until we get down to four or five hours.”
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