Word: congressmen
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...measure as reported by his committee. Inclusion of those in the $7,000 to $12,000 categories will cost the Treasury $2.4 billion. Only three-quarters of the time allocated for floor debate was used. Constituent mail has been running so strongly in favor of the measure that few Congressmen were willing to face next year's elections without a safe position on the issue...
Budge contends that he did "nothing improper" because his personal labor negotiations were with the funds rather than with the parent I.D.S. Some Congressmen consider this distinction irrelevant. True, the SEC regulates fund management companies more closely than the funds themselves, but the funds' activities are hardly outside the scope of its concern. New Hampshire Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre noted last week that the SEC had unsuccessfully advised the Senate Banking Committee to soften the language of a bill that would limit the fees that mutual funds can charge investors. Senator Proxmire said that he was "shocked" that Budge...
...most responsible for shaping West Point's future. A graduate of the class of 1807, Thayer envisioned a school that would not only produce leaders in wartime but would also train engineers and scientists to develop the growing country. Despite his ability, Thayer was constantly thwarted by Congressmen who saw the fledgling academy as a waste of money and a potential instrument of federal power, and so tried to have it abolished. Political favoritism in Washington forced reinstatement of dismissed cadets. Lack of funds became so crucial that cadets were obliged to take the place of horses in dragging...
Unique Penetration. Support for the trade-restricting measures cuts through geographic and party lines because shoe manufacturing is scattered across 40 states. It is a principal industry in New England and ranks high in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Ohio and North Carolina. Altogether, 253 Congressmen have shoe plants in their home districts, most of them located in small towns where they are vital to the local economy...
...efficiency expert and auditor at the Pentagon, Fitzgerald has been giving interested Congressmen detailed, inside descriptions of how multibillion-dollar contracts grow between the assignment and delivery dates. Though he has found eager listeners among critics of the military on Capitol Hill, the Pentagon has chosen to treat him as a mildly treasonous pest...