Word: congressmen
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Most of the trumpet calls came from Carter's own party. The House Democratic Caucus repudiated Carter's oil decontrol plan, and House liberals joined Republicans to vote down the proposed federal budget (a vote that was rescinded the next day). Five Democratic Congressmen publicly announced they would not support Carter's renomination and charged that he had "abandoned the promises and hopes of his own campaign." Four of them announced support for the drafting of Senator Edward Kennedy, an idea that Kennedy is doing increasingly little to discourage. A poll released last week showed him beating...
...much about business as anything else." The story also required healthy feet. Shields loped through the labyrinthine corridors of the HEW building, lurked about the halls of Congress and made several trips to the White House. She interviewed HEW Secretary Joseph Califano, Senator Edward Kennedy, health industry lobbyists and Congressmen for and against the Administration's medical care bill. She tracked down volumes of studies always revealing, she says, "that costs have risen again." Concludes Shields: "It's a challenging, almost intractable problem, and with next year's election ahead, it won't just fade away...
Difficult as these fights were, the Democratic leaders actually had more trouble with their big-spending allies. Lobbyists from consumer, church, education, union and urban groups stalked Congressmen in the halls and their offices, showing open disdain for efforts to reduce the budget, despite the clear public cry for less Government spending. Scoffed Kenneth Young, chief lobbyist for the AFL-CIO: "The members are looking for ways to show how fiscally responsible they are. I'm afraid too many are just looking for political votes." Added Evelyn Dubrow, veteran lobbyist for the International Ladies' Garment Workers: "I think...
...shines. Now Sinatra has rejoined the fray in more orthodox and, just possibly, more effective fashion. He has endorsed an article critical of the press in Policy Review, published by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, and has mailed copies of the piece to the President, Congressmen, college journalism departments, publishers and columnists...
...have thought that public protest can be counterproductive. And so does the All-Union Council. That view Vins quickly dismisses. "If everyone had remained silent, we might very well be dead," he says of the recent prisoner exchange. He adds that his own prison treatment improved markedly after U.S. Congressmen began calling for his release...