Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Very soon, Congressmen will be voting on the statehood issue. Through your newspaper we may stir enough interest in the people to write to their Congressmen, tolling them that they are definitely in favor of Hawaiian statehood. . . . Clinton Ching '56, President Hawaii Club of New England
...Congressmen who didn't know what to say about the Bricker amendment were decisive and articulate-and undivided-on the coffee issue. The Senate started an investigation. The House thought it had better start one, too. The President of the U.S. (who drinks 2½ cups a day, while Mrs. Eisenhower drinks five) announced that the Federal Trade Commission was trying to get to the bottom of the coffee price rise...
...residual, authority. Congress has been no less prone to abuse authority than the President, no less in need of the restraints inherent in a checks and balance system. Once Bricker had his way, the hundreds of agreements which diplomacy requires daily would become so many levers by which Congressmen could pry out of the executive satisfaction for their peeves and private theories...
...Congressmen reacted discreetly. It might be dangerous, especially in an election year, to vote themselves a raise...
Lawrence Seaway project-and Congress has just as consistently refused. Chief stumbling bloc: the Congressmen from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts who fear that the seaway might divert trade from ports in their states. Last week, however, another seaway bill went to the floor of the Senate, and breaks soon appeared in the traditional anti-seaway dike...