Word: congressmen
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Just a few days before that, Carter gathered a bunch of Congressmen and women around him and talked about how the U.S. margin of power had begun to decline in Kennedy's time, about his idea that in adjusting to the new realities we had to rely more on trade, our religious heritage and human rights. Those who listened were impressed with the sincerity of the President and his collection of facts about people and places. But what did not add up was how this country was going to move beyond the disappointments in Iran and the Israeli-Egyptian...
Another potential embarrassment occurred last week when Shahriar Rouhani, Komeini's spokesman in Washington, announced that his staff had turned up evidence of widespread payoffs by the Shah's regime to many prominent Americans, including Congressmen. The U.S. Justice Department has also opened an investigation of the charge...
...this waffling is immensely frustrating for Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. For the past two years he has urged conservation steps; Congressmen have done little more than nod politely. The present squeeze, Schlesinger argues, "is a warning, but the real danger is in the long run. We must take advantage of short-term crises to try to make fundamental long-term changes...
...House. The business under discussion was about as trivial as it could be. Congressmen were passing a resolution urging the Merchant Marine to select an official march for the first time. Nevertheless, the 23-minute session was historic. It was taped by an elaborate $1.2 million complex of television equipment from a control room in a subbasement of the Capitol...
...convention's agenda; an American Bar Association study from 1974 agrees, as long as Congress passes the necessary legislation. Furthermore, most of the bills that the states are passing to ask Congress to summon a convention themselves stipulate that budget-balancing should be the only issue on its agenda. Congressmen, too, though opposed to the whole idea of a convention, would obviously prefer one with narrow authority. In fact, the dire warnings against a convention run wild come only from opponents who are using them as a scare tactic; convention supporters seem perfectly willing to limit themselves...