Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Half a dozen years ago, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Lobbyist Andrew Biemiller could guess correctly how some 300 Congressmen would vote on labor legislation; thus he and his assistants had to sound out and try to persuade only the remainder?about 135 Representatives. Today he has to touch base with at least 300 unpredictable Congressmen and never can be sure which way many of them will jump. Last year he was confident that the House would pass the common situs picketing bill, which would have allowed a single union to shut down an entire construction site, but it lost by twelve votes...
Some aides have moved out front in political or administrative careers of their own. About 18 former aides are now Congressmen and four are Senators. Among other ex-aides are A. Daniel O'Neal, who is chairman of tine Interstate Commerce Commission; Michael Pertschuk, head of the Federal Trade Commission; and Charles Ferris, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. More typical is Kenneth McLean, 43, staff director of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. "I'd be a terrible politician," admits McLean. "To be a politician you have to go out and shake...
...number of bills you introduced. Now our constituents think that perhaps too many bills are introduced. What counts with our constituents is the service we give them and how well we oversee laws already on the books. The public is certainly less deferential to any officeholder, including Congressmen...
...summoned to the White House with other members of the energy conference committee. President Carter wanted to know if we'd work until Christmas and all that. Well, we were called at 4:30 p.m. to be at the White House by 5:30. All of us Congressmen made it by 5:40; I went on the subway. But the Senators didn't even start showing up until 6. One didn't arrive until 6:20, and another didn't come at all. I asked myself, "God! Is this the way we respect the President...
...group, in addition to its formal testimony, met with individual congressmen to present its side of what Moore termed "the tug of war between applied science and basic science...