Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things are changing. In the past, Congressmen were swamped with mail from self-styled "gun nuts" whenever even the most limited controls were proposed. Now the rest of the nation has been making itself heard...
...least two dozen Congressmen are members, including Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper. N.R.A. has 182 "field representatives" working on legislation, not only in Washington but in 47 state capitals as well. Much of its $5,700,000 budget goes toward promoting such slogans as "Shooting Is Safe." Despite its insistence that it does not directly tell its members to write their Congressmen, astounding numbers of them certainly do?usually sending identically worded messages supplied by the organization's magazine, American Rifleman. Tydings, for example, received thousands of letters with his name misspelled Tidings aftter it appeared that...
...intended to highlight the demands of the poor; to ensure order, Rustin is arranging for nearly 1,500 black New York City policemen (known as "the Guardians") and firemen ("the Vulcans") to serve as marshals in Washington on the big day. On Capitol Hill, Abernathy and 20 sympathetic Congressmen agreed to set up six subcommittees that will seek legislation to aid the poverty-stricken. Among the measures that they will push: President Johnson's program to build 6,000,000 homes for low-income families over the next decade, which last week was approved by the Senate; an Administration...
...leaflet; the poor resent the restrictions on their behavior, the intrusions into their privacy which they must tolerate to receive welfare benefits. Even the liberals who don't care about economic efficiency join Friedman here; the issue of human dignity makes them allies. However, many liberals suspect that Republican Congressmen, like Melvin Laird of Wisconsin, will try to pass minimal subsidy legislation as a justification for other cuts in welfare spending, leading to a net reduction of aid to the poor. This certainly bothers many moderates and liberals who would otherwise support subsidy legislation, and makes them afraid of doing...
...opinions of those middle-class voters which present the greatest obstacle to enactment of minimum income legislation. Whatever else they do, election-year Congressmen simply cannot let their constituents think that the poor are "getting away" with anything. The portion of the American Middle Class that sees the poor as sloppy, drunken, and lustful, is determined that the poor should pay for their libertine existence with poverty. It sees any attempt to bring the poor up to or near its income level as a threat to its own position. The view is shortsighted, of course. Being poor in America really...