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1934Year Deadlock over N Y C economy bill delays action PLAN TO TAKE UP TAX BILL AT ALBANY
Legislators May Sidetrack Deadlocked City Measure for Other Subjects. LIQUOR CONTROL INCLUDED Action on Job Insurance and Child Labor Amendment Is Also to Be Pressed.
1954Year TRENTON, March 20 -- The New Jersey Legislature will reconvene here on Monday after a five-week winter recess. JERSEY TO SPEED LINCOLN TUBE BILL
Legislators Meet Tomorrow After 5-Week Recess and Face Many Problems
1927Year Dispatches NEW JERSEY BOWS TO SMITH'S DEMAND
Legislators Move to Repeal Bridge Bill, but Moore Wants Amendment Merely. HE BLAMES LAWMAKERS They Went Beyond His Idea, He Says, in Fixing a Curb on Port Authority. NEW JERSEY BOWS TO SMITH'S DEMAND
1943Year Assemblyman Ostertag offers bill permitting munic chief execs or town bds to appt temporary policemen and firemen when civil service lists are not sufficient to meet local demands WOULD LET PRISONS OMIT REAL BUTTER
Legislators Move to Revise the Law -- Hospitals, Too, Could Use Substitutes
1947Year CHICAGO, Feb. 22 -- Lawmakers of Central Western States have apparently reached the conclusion that the time has come to make it harder to obtain divorces or harder to remarry following divorce. CENTRAL STATES
Legislators Moving to Make Divorce More Difficult
1993Year Reflecting on my unsuccessful 1992 Republican primary bid for State Assembly against a 22-year incumbent, I was pleased to read "Push For Term Limitations Gains Strength" [ Aug. 22 ] . Unlike Nassau County, Suffolk residents are fortunate that they will have the ability this November to alter their political landscape for years to come. Locally, I am convinced term limitations is a way of diffusing the egregious and far-reaching powers enjoyed by the Democratic and Republican Parties on Long Island. For instance, this issue will in part deal with the concomitant problem of patronage and self-appointment politics, which continues to hinder good government both in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Yet, I feel compelled to answer some critics on this issue. Brookhaven Town Councilmembers Joseph Macchia and Patricia Strebel, both Republicans, feel that once term limits are imposed the citizenry would lose "very talented and effective legislators." This argument is completely disingenuous, since it has been a common view promulgated by politicians who seemingly feel they are politically indispensable. Secondly, Secretary of State Gail S. Shaffer, a Democrat, sees the import of "experienced" legislators. The word "experience" in politics is probably the most overrated and overused concept, but nevertheless impacts on the mind of the voter. For any politician touting his experience during re-election time it is often a win-win scenario. Here is a clear example of an institutional problem which could only be rectified by mandating limits on legislative tenure. So called "experience" politicians, like 10-year incumbent Mario M. Cuomo, have failed miserably in reaching budget decisions, improving transportation, providing decent education, or deterring crime. Ms. Shaffer fails to understand what historian Daniel Boorstein poignantly understood
legislators must be kept to the "amateur spirit." Term limitations, or as Jefferson called it, "rotation of public service," has three advantages. First, rotation provides an opportunity for a greater number of individuals to serve in government. Second, it serves as a check on tyranny and selfish political power. But most importantly the Founding Fathers believed that rotation both facilitates and affirms the experimental connection that must exist between the representatives and represented. Perhaps term limits is a movement of emotion and simplicity, as Professor Cover suggests. But what politicians and academicians fail to understand is that simplicity and common sense can indeed yield profound political, social, and economic change. THOMAS R. MULLEN Nassau Citizens for Term Limits Massapequa Rotate Holders Of Public Office