Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Durkin, a former state insurance commissioner, defeated former Republican Congressmen Louis C. Wyman, winning about 54 per cent of the vote to Wyman's 46 per cent. Carmen C. Chimento, the candidate of the right-wing American Independent Party received 3 per cent of the vote...
...many influential Congressmen from outside New York were beginning to worry about the impact a default would have on their home districts. A number of them−Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, House Speaker Carl Albert, House Banking Committee Chairman Henry Reuss−began calling for some additional long-term federal help for all cities. A main reason was that New York's agony has made it costlier and tougher for many other cities to raise money from investors...
...Board of Economists, warned that decontrol would add one point to the inflation rate and that the price rise OPEC is expected to announce soon may add another. Last week the pessimists drew some support from an unexpected source: a major oil company. In a widely noted letter to congressmen, Mobil Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr. said that sudden decontrol might be "a shock" to the recovery and could slash consumer buying power by as much as $8 billion-well above the Administration's estimate of $5.3 billion...
...administered, Sore Throat was passing along to TIME copies of memoranda showing how the A.M.A.'s Washington lobbyists requested funds for politicians from AMPAC, the organization's political action committee. He also explained how the money made its way circuitously from Chicago to the coffers of those Congressmen whose favor the A.M.A., which cannot legally make direct political contributions, is interested in currying...
...result of Sore Throat's leaks, Congressmen and Senators are talking of holding hearings on A.M.A. activities in order to determine whether they violate laws on political activities by corporations. The IRS also has for some time been trying to decide whether the A.M.A.'s activities should cost it its tax-exempt status, and the Postal Service is reviewing the A.M.A.'s second-class mailing privileges (along with those of other organizations). But the revelations have yet to force any visible changes in the organization's policies. Sammons remains firmly in charge and, despite growing disenchantment...