Word: congressman
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...philosophical opposition but something more visceral. Displaying symptoms of the NIMBY, or not-in-my-backyard, syndrome, Republicans, including House majority leader Dick Armey, have staunchly opposed voucher programs that might lead poor and disproportionately black public-housing residents to seek housing in the mostly white suburbs. Freshman Congressman Robert Ehrlich Jr., who represents the white, working-class suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, has even introduced legislation to cut off money for voucher programs ordered by a federal judge in his district. "People who have worked their entire lives to buy a home resent government handouts," he says, adding that vouchers...
...ranks grumbled that such punishment for old operations now deemed politically incorrect would chill risk taking in the future. (Indeed, many senior officers buy $1 million insurance policies in case the agency abandons them to lawsuits.) The agency "still needs James Bonds," says a House Intelligence Committee member, Congressman Bill Richardson. "[It needs] spies who do the dirty work that needs to be done." The CIA's deputy director for clandestine operations, David Cohen, insists in an exclusive interview with TIME that his spies are still taking chances. Morale is "extraordinarily high in the field," Cohen says. "People are motivated...
...WASHINGTON OUT TO CUT federal spending, 12-term Congressman Bud Shuster is an unrepentant pork-barrel spender. Now it appears the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has converts. More than half his House colleagues--including a hefty majority of those reform-minded G.O.P. freshmen--are backing a bill that would lift constraints on highway and airport projects. If the Truth in Budgeting Act is passed by the House next week, it would give Shuster's committee great latitude to tap some $33 billion in transportation trust funds...
Representative Charlie Rose couldn't resist flavoring his arguments with some old-fashioned red scare tactics. Declaring that an end to supports would open the door to Cuban sugar, the North Carolina Democrat demanded to know, "How dare this House bring pleasure to Fidel Castro?" The Congressman will be happy to discover that the existing trade embargo against Cuba will deny any such solace...
...million to renovate a foundry at the soon to be closed Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, which lies in the Congressman's district...