ABSTRACT
Hopes for expeditious House floor consideration died, only to be revived and to expire again through the summer. The Foreign Service bill was frequently on the House floor schedule, only to be bumped time and again as one after another of the appropriations bills took longer than anticipated. Ben Read and Claiborne Pell decided to try again that same afternoon, in one last attempt to report the bill before the Senate recessed the next day. It was also decided to move the meeting from the Dirksen Senate Office Building to S-116, the Foreign Relations committee room in the Capitol, because of a conflict in scheduling but also since it might help insure a quorum, being much closer to the Senate floor. Senator Biden, who had become interested and engaged in the issue, volunteered to bring two colleagues back from the floor.
