Word: congressmen
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When the President signs a bill, the White House traditionally invites interested Congressmen to the Oval Office for ceremonial photographs. So it was last week with the black-lung bill to increase benefits for disabled coal miners, and among the invited legislators was Democratic Congressman Dan Flood of Pennsylvania. For Flood, who is under investigation for numerous influence-peddling schemes, the chance for some flackery instead of flak was a godsend. Flood showed up early at the Oval Office and anchored himself behind the presidential chair. Party leaders began jostling to get the Congressman off center stage. No words were...
Pending before the Senate now is an international agreement that would stabilize sugar prices through voluntary limits on exports to the U.S. by foreign producers, chiefly the Philippines and the Dominican Republic. But the Senators, reflecting the anger with the President felt by Congressmen from farm states, are in no mood to support the pact until the Administration establishes a policy ensuring that U.S. sugar producers will not be hurt by foreign competition...
Many farm-state Senators and Congressmen muttered, perhaps unfairly, that Carter's policy was chiefly intended to benefit Atlanta-based Coca-Cola, which is the nation's biggest commercial sugar user, accounting for about 10% of annual U.S. consumption, and is headed by his longtime friend J. Paul Austin. At a Senate hearing, Louisiana Democrat Russell Long told Bergland, "I would call the existing sugar program a Coca-Cola program." Replied White House Aide Lynn Daft: "The Coca-Cola charge is an outrage." Still, in a July 7 memo to Carter, White House Assistant Stuart Eizenstat recommended that...
...Carter would be better off without him and the sooner he leaves the better," Metzenbaum said. He added that Schlesinger has alienated Congressmen who usually favor consumer interests and also legislators who support oil company bills...
...door Ethics Committee sessions in the Rayburn House Office Building. His aim is to get Park to go beyond what he told Justice officials last January in Seoul. There, Park said he had given $750,000 not only as political campaign contributions but also as "gifts" to five former Congressmen. At the same time, Park denied paying off all those named on the lists assembled by investigators; in fact, Justice officials believe he may have pocketed some of his own government's money. Jaworski is convinced, however, that Park knows more than he has revealed-and that...