Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California Congressmen Charles H. Wilson and Edward Roybal were reprimanded by the House last month for not reporting, as required, $1,000 gifts from Koreagate's master briber, Tongsun Park. Hispanic Leader Roybal's supporters used Diggs' line of defense: suggesting that he was getting harsh treatment because of his ethnic background. He and Wilson were handily reelected...
...used to. We don't owe anybody anything." With several hundred different ideas caroming around the Capitol about how to handle energy or inflation, it is difficult to make policy. It is also much harder for the man in the White House to use party discipline to bring Congressmen into line behind his program. Jimmy Carter, who for the first two years of his term incautiously neglected relations with the national Democratic Party, found that he could not attack from the culprit's rear, by way of the party structure back home...
...running along the Potomac River, and his widow took his place on the ballot. Perkins' chances of winning were never good, but they got even worse when he was tossed in jail for assaulting a woman bus driver. Undaunted, he pointed out: "We've had plenty of Congressmen who ended up in jail. What's wrong with one who started in jail?" The voters thought otherwise. On election night, Perkins consoled himself by showing up, unshaven and wearing his stained wool overcoat, at a Democratic victory celebration. The reason: free beer...
Harvard, along with other schools, lobbied to get the legislation passed. "We worked with staff and Congressmen to tell them what we thought would be most helpful" Gibson said
...Most Congressmen and Senators were back in their home districts last week, seeking new zest along the campaign trail after one of the most hectic congressional closings in modern times. Now it was up to President Carter and his aides to try to make sense out of the incredible pile of 189 bills-including a tax cut and an energy program-that the lawmakers had sent to the White House. Among the other significant legislative deaths and births during the last hours of the session...