Word: congressman
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...Steve Gobie. The committee had been deadlocked for weeks, as Democrats argued for issuing only a mild letter of "reproval" to Frank while Republicans demanded a more severe punishment. The committee asked the House to scold Frank for fixing parking tickets that Gobie had picked up while driving the Congressman's car, and for using his official stationery to intercede with Gobie's probation officers. It rejected Gobie's claim that he had used Frank's Washington apartment for prostitution with the Congressman's knowledge. California Republican William Dannemeyer nonetheless vowed to urge Frank's expulsion from office when...
Last month Zumwalt told a House subcommittee that the CDC's work on Agent Orange had been "a fraud." He singled out Houk for having "made it his mission to manipulate and prevent the true facts from being determined." New York Congressman Ted Weiss, chairman of the panel, charged in an interview that the CDC appeared to have "rigged" its investigation to support its view that a large study of exposed veterans was not feasible...
Houk insists that his opposition to continuing the project was based solely on rigorous scientific principles. "If we could find a population of people who were exposed in sufficient numbers, we would have proceeded with our study," he says. "We just simply could not find them." Skeptics like Congressman Weiss suspect that the CDC did not want to antagonize the Reagan Administration, which was worried about the huge liability costs if Agent Orange was shown to cause the veterans' ailments. Whatever the reasons for its failure, the decision not to complete the study leaves open a vexing problem: whether Agent...
...same stage, as if for journalistic convenience, were the other fringe players in this netherworld of black rage. Helping open Farrakhan's rally was Congressman Gus Savage, lately reproved by a House committee for the sexual harassment of a Peace Corps officer, which trouble, among others, he blames variously on the racist media and Jews. To complete this chilling tableau, also on stage was Tawana Brawley. Two years ago, she turned New York upside down by charging she'd been raped for four days by six white men. The story turned out to be a fabrication. But she carries...
...package of new taxes and spending cuts to reduce the federal deficit. A growing though still small alliance of free-market, suburban Republicans and big-city Democrats is pushing unprecedented changes in the 1990 farm bill that comes to the House floor later this month. The reformers, led by Congressman Dick Armey, a Texas Republican, and Representative Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, would end federal payments to farmers with adjusted gross incomes of , $100,000 or more a year and otherwise restructure farm programs to save more than $1 billion annually...