Seizing a chance to prove Mr. Reid wrong, he offered a motion allowing work on the bill to continue.
When Robert Byrd, the 81-year-old Democrat from West Virginia, this week offered a motion to dismiss Bill Clinton's trial on the ground that there will never be the two-thirds majority needed to remove the president from office, naive supporters of Bill Clinton spotted a glimmer of hope.
The analysis package offered a motion correction for in-plane movement.
From 1923 to 1926, he was at the Times, backing up George S. Kaufman in the drama department; while he was there, he also became the first regular theatre critic for The New Yorker, writing weekly from June , 1925 until January, 1926, when he was offered a motion-picture contract and left for Hollywood.
Democrats had planned to offer a motion to endorse language in a military spending bill that would prohibit abusive treatment.
The Republicans will also offer a motion to "recommit" the Democrats' bill for changes -- essentially an effort to block a vote on the bill.
House Democrats, led by Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, had planned to offer a motion this week to endorse language in a military spending bill, written by Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, that would prohibit abusive treatment of terror suspects.
A group of House rebels led by Ron Kind, Democrat of Wisconsin, is expected to offer a motion this morning on the House floor to send the whole sorry mess back to the conference committee for fixing.
At the group's annual meeting on May 31, discontented shareholders are expected to offer a motion to dismiss Mr. Muhlemann and to demand more information about his role in the fall of Swissair, where he was a director for many years.
Street dealers dotted that no-longer-upscale strip of Adams Boulevard, near downtown Los Angeles, flagging down white kids in cars to sell them loads, a potent combo of Doredin and Codeine 4. Dors-'n'-4s offered a slow-motion rush that lasted half an hour, with a residual opiate buzz that kept you scratching your nose and not moving your bowels for days at a time.
Putting a heavy ashtray on top of the piano, he offered a lesson in motion: "If I want to move this thing, I don't come at it with a lot of speed" — he showed how the ashtray would tip over if you hit it hard — "but slowly, at the speed I want to move it".
