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...protest quickly spread across the political spectrum. On May 18, 36 Senators signed a letter asking for changes in the NEA's grant-making procedures so that "shocking, abhorrent and completely undeserving" art would not get money. At the prompting of Texas Congressman Dick Armey, 107 members of the House sent a similar letter to the endowment...
Agreeable to all parties, of course, is the rub. It will always be politically safer to fund an exhibit of old masters than an exhibit of unproven work. Two weeks ago at a meeting in his office, Yates confronted NEA critic Armey with a Picasso painting of the Crucifixion, which offended many people in the 1930s. Armey admitted that he was not offended by the Picasso, but did not concede anything about Mapplethorpe. Armey warned that if the Mapplethorpe catalog is plunked down on the table during the debate on NEA funding, its budget would be "blown...
...election challenged only by a Trotskyite and a vegetarian. In 1988, 65 incumbents ran unopposed. Congressmen so blessed are reluctant to take a stance that might complicate re-election. "The risk they are averting is not the loss of their seat," explains Republican Congressman Dick Armey of Texas, "but that they have to go home and face a rigorous challenge." A House Democratic leader says colleagues sometimes complain, "If I cast that vote, I've bought myself an opponent next time...
...civilian jobs vanished and the surrounding community in the Upper Peninsula lost 33% of its population. Today an industrial park at the old base site provides work to four times as many civilians as Kincheloe employed. Success stories like these give credence to the view of Republican Congressman Dick Armey who authored the legislation on installation shutdowns: "There is indeed life after base closings...
...plan devised by Texas Republican Congressman Richard Armey passes the onus to a nonpartisan Pentagon commission, which will draw up a list of unnecessary bases. To stop the closings, the legislators would have to reject the entire list and probably have to override a presidential veto. Possible savings for taxpayers: as much as $5 billion a year...