Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these Congressmen were shot by fanatical Puerto Ricans who invaded the House...
...more distasteful to the legislators than to the President, yearning for a rest in Denver). For the long run, the President theorized at a White House stag dinner that the Constitution might well be amended to provide four-year terms for House members.* The President's reasons: Congressmen now spend half of their two-year terms campaigning and voting to please factions back home instead of for the nation's best interests; a Congress elected simultaneously with a President would assure more of a team approach, greater party responsibility...
...ignored President Eisenhower's search for a way to cure crop surpluses. Instead, without a record vote, House members whooped through a bill permitting sale abroad of $1 billion in farm surpluses, plus famine relief gifts of $300 million more. So hot was the fervor to unload that Congressmen struck from the bill a provision for "reasonable precautions" against any smashing of normal trade patterns by U.S. dumping abroad...
...wide and windy balcony overlooking the dirty Pasig River, the Senators and Congressmen affably downed a hearty dinner of turtle soup, egg. roast beef and ice cream. Then Magsaysay handed his statement of principles to Senator Eulogio Rodriguez, president of both the party and the Senate, who read it to the group...
...Congressmen from the Southwest last week talked about a new law that would take the Government out of the gas-regulating business, such as the Kerr natural-gas bill, which was vetoed by Harry Truman in 1950. The chances of getting such a law through this session are slim, since legislators from gas-consuming states would oppose it in an election year. But oil-and-gas men think that consumers may feel differently if there are gas shortages...