Word: ashbrook
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...whose states would have got less gas than under Carter's original proposal, voted heavily against it. Republicans seized on the chance to voice ideological hostility to Government regulation -and embarrass a Democratic President making an unpopular proposal. "We do not need rationing; we need production!" cried John Ashbrook of Ohio. But the biggest reason for the turndown was simple fear that a vote even for stand-by rationing in an emergency would brand a Congressman as being "for rationing" and lose him support at home...
...gutsy, courageous decision," declared Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho, who will become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when the 96th Congress convenes in mid-January. "An act of treachery," countered Republican Congressman John Ashbrook of Ohio, a leader of the conservative bloc on Capitol Hill...
Even if the conservatives lose in court, they intend to harry Carter's new China policy in Congress. Vowed Ohio's Ashbrook: "We will throw up every conceivable roadblock." They will have several opportunities. Carter will have to seek the Senate's confirmation of his nominee as Ambassador to China. He will also have to ask Congress for funds to open an embassy in Peking and for the approval of changes in the treaty language that are needed to keep in force nonmilitary agreements with Taiwan...
...meet any Harvard graduates. Today, he wonders how Harvard can expect financial support from alumni if the school succumbs to pressure from "campus activists," abolishing programs such as the Reserve Officer Training Corps, or if it rejects the admissions applications from the children of alumni. And Rep. John M. Ashbrook (R-Ohio) says he has spent 25 years "overcoming the image of being the graduate of a liberal college," in part by serving as a ranking member on the House Un-American Activities Committee until its abolition...
...dumbest thing I ever heard of," declared Ohio Congressman John Ashbrook, who vowed not to work...