Word: congressmen
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Since Goldwater's defeat, the leaders of the Republica Party have been Congressmen, mostly from rural areas, Brooke explained. These men, he suggested, are not in touch with the modern problems of cities and urban development...
...economists' concern was echoed by the 16 Congressmen who comprise the Joint Economic Committee. The Democratic majority called, as expected (TIME, March 18), for "standby" tax increases that could be put into effect whenever needed by a joint resolution of Congress, plus immediate suspension of the investment tax credit. In deference to the Great Society-and the November elections-the report contained a pious caveat that "the poor, the sick, the aged, the infirm and the discriminated against" should not, in any case, be asked to "carry the major burdens of preventing inflation." The six-man G.O.P. minority demanded...
...part of its six-year, $700 million highway safety bill, the Administration requested discretionary authority to establish automobile safety standards-and fully expected Congress to balk. As it turned out, Congressmen complained that the Administration had not gone sufficiently far or fast. Senator Abraham Ribicoff, a stern evangelist of traffic safety when he was Governor of Connecticut, urged that the Administration should be required, not authorized, to set safety standards, adding that in any case they could not be incorporated until the 1970 models. Asked Ribicoff: "Are we going to watch 50 million new cars roll off the assembly lines...
...executive committee will back this bill in letters to various newspapers and to congressmen in the Massachusetts General Court. It also plans to encourage students to write to congressmen in support of the bill...
...tossing aside these objections is patently political. He wants to go on record "as trying to keep the budget deficit down," according to Rep. James H. Scheuer (D-N.Y.); if the government insures the loans, the full amount will not have to be listed on the budget. Congressmen speculate that the President will gracefully accept defeat on this issue and others--including the school lunch program--if Congress is willing to accept blame for the budget deficit...