Word: congressmen
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...anyone still underestimated either the depth of U.S. determination or the physical dimensions of the war it was fighting in Viet Nam, McNamara's brisk recital of statistics brought both into focus. The Defense Secretary told Congressmen that U.S. forces in the war zone have been firing $210 million worth of ammunition a month. "We are preparing," said he, "to support a much higher rate...
...result in recent months has been organized anarchy. Corruption of all kinds was rampant on all levels of government. Congressmen saw their mandates as springboards to instant wealth. Ministers wheeled and dealed: Okotie Eboh almost openly accepted dash from large corporations in return for favored treatment, and used his position as Finance Minister to drive through prohibitive tariffs to protect his own private shoe factory. In the Western Region, all but one of the government party's 54 regional assemblymen drew fat extra paychecks for doubling as Ministers or parliamentary officials-a feat that President Nnamdi Azikiwe...
There are several good reasons for supporting a four-year House term. First, the biennial election makes campaigning almost a full-time activity for increasingly overworked Congressmen. In the face of more and more complex duties, most Representatives must also attend to constituents' business, answer their mail, write endless newsletters and press releases, and record messages for local radio and television stations...
...President's most surprising, if scarcely most meaningful, proposal was his foursquare declaration in favor of a four-year term for Representatives. The present two-year term, said Johnson, caused Congressmen to "divert enormous energies to an almost constant process of campaigning." Although House members met his recommendations with a rousing cheer, there will be much debate about it in weeks to come. For one thing, Johnson's plan would bring all 435 House members up for election in the same year as the President-thus effectively canceling off-year judgments by the voters, who have frequently displayed...
...draft law and "giving aid and comfort to the enemy." Since then the action of the Georgia legislators has been defended by Georgia Governor Carl Sanders and vehemently protested by many, including members of SNCC, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, and a number of Republican and Democratic congressmen from throughout the country. On January 28, a three-judge panel named by Federal Circuit Court Judge Elbert P. Tuttle will hear the petition filed by Bond's attorneys seeking an injunction forcing the Legislature to seat...