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Example sentences for: gavel

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To count on party discipline to reject McCain-Feingold outright, or to use the power of the gavel to prevent it from coming to the floor, would be to court a public backlash and a revolt within the Republican caucus.
As soon as Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., bangs the gavel at 10:10 a.m., committee Democrats start carping that they are being unfairly silenced, that they and Clinton's lawyers have not been given enough time to question Starr.
Everybody leads with the jockeying in the House of Representatives for the Speaker's gavel.
Hyde, who's trying desperately to be patient, is fingering his gavel like he wants to heave it at Frank.
Even at 75 miles per hour, I could count on driving at least 12 hours, making it just in time for the opening gavel at 1 p.m.