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Watts Jr. of Oklahoma pre-empted consideration of the bill by introducing an alternative resolution denouncing all forms of racism and bigotry without mentioning the CCC specifically.
Perhaps we ought to be saying street person for the first and working stiff for the second, but the first has been pre-empted and it seems a little incongruous to find anyone actively seeking to be called a “stiff.”
She was preparing to sell her story to the tabloids when Spencer pre-empted her.