Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic majority became precisely 2 to 1 last week when Oklahoma Democrat John Jarmon, an archconservative, announced that he was outraged by the ousting of committee chairmen and was joining the Republican Party. That makes the House division 290 Democrats to 145 Republicans...
...four years and thus was technically a freshly man again, they invited all the chair men to meet individually with them to answer questions about committee procedures and policy. "No one turned us down," reported Ottinger, who noted that he had never even met some of the formerly aloof chairmen in his previous six years in Congress. But now, figuratively hat in hand, the aging power brokers faced their upstart inquisitors...
...these four chairmen become the targets of the rebellion? Although all but Patman are conservatives, the four were shot down more because of the autocratic manner in which they have dominated their committees than because of ideology. Hebert, who has represented a New Orleans-area district for 34 years, is a witty but stubborn cold warrior who has rarely challenged Pentagon policy. Poage, a raspy-voiced Texan who was elected to Congress in 1936, has been an advocate of farm subsidies and opponent of liberalizing food-stamp programs. Ohio's Hays, serving his 14th term, highhandedly controlled many congressional...
...Senate Republicans, for example, elected Nebraska's four-term Carl Curtis, a conservative and last-ditch defender of Richard Nixon, as chairman of the Republican Conference, over New York's liberal Jacob Javits. Although the Senate Democratic Caucus continued its practice of naming committee chairmen on the basis of seniority for the current two-year Congress, it decided to follow the lead of the House for the session beginning in 1977; at that time the caucus will select chairmen by secret ballot. The Democrats also voted to open all committee meetings and joint House-Senate conference deliberations...
...Teng Hsiao-ping, 70, the shrewd party bureaucrat who over the last year has performed many of Chou En-lai's duties, was promoted to First Vice Premier and elevated to vice-chairmanship of the Communist Party (there are five other Vice Chairmen). The appointment accelerated Teng's spectacular rise from utter disgrace during the Cultural Revolution (when he was branded "the No. 2 capitalist reader," after Lui Shao-chi) and gives him an official position that accords with the great power he wields. Many observers feel now that Teng has moved to first in line to succeed...