Word: abourezk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, the Justice Department was prodded into action last week by two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrats Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and James Abourezk of South Dakota. They wrote a letter to Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, reminding him that the committee was drafting new rules of conduct for FBI agents and was "intensely interested" in the controversy about Rowe...
...appearance in Washington of sleek limousines rolling away from the city's Madison Hotel to carry Saudi Arabian princes and high officials to meetings with Senators had an impact. American-educated Saudi Prince Turki attended a lunch given by South Dakota's pro-Arab James Abourezk for 22 other Senators. Individually, Turki and another member of the Saudi royal family, Prince Bandar, met with other Senators. Also from Riyadh came Ghazi Algosaibi, Minister of Industry and Power, and Sulaiman As-Salim, Minister of Commerce. All were low-key but sophisticated salesmen who, in excellent English, made a strong...
...first Panama Canal treaty turned on a handful of votes, and so it seemed would the second as the critical vote loomed last week. South Dakota Democrat James Abourezk, for example, was miffed at being cut out of White House-Congress meetings trying to resolve the question of deregulating natural gas prices. California Republican Sam Hayakawa had fired off a letter to Carter complaining about a wide variety of Administration foreign policy moves. Nevada Democrat Howard Cannon wanted to tack onto the Panama treaty a relatively minor reservation. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke was pushing some technical changes. All were threatening...
...fellow Republicans carved up a large doughnut that was meant to symbolize a birthday cake for a bill with a hole in it. A mixed group of Democratic and Republican Senators had their own party, complete with a cake adorned by a turkey. Said South Dakota's James Abourezk: "We are meeting in thanksgiving that the various turkeys trotted out by the natural gas conferees have not yet been stuffed down the throats of Congress...
...Bennett Johnston, who insist on a free market for natural gas, and Carter, who has repeatedly vowed to veto any bill that abruptly decontrols gas prices. The problem is complicated by another Senate bloc, this one led by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum and South Dakota's James Abourezk, both of whose states are heavily dependent on natural gas; they therefore demand that a federal lid be kept on gas prices. Democrat Henry Jackson, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has been struggling for more than a month to cobble together a compromise deal featuring phased...