Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these post-Watergate days of pol bashing. Indeed, while other reporters stood outside in the cold, Madigan was allowed to broadcast Daley's funeral live from inside the church last winter. The "Committee of Friends of John Madigan" that sponsored last week's soiree included two Congressmen, two former Governors and long ballots of lesser officeholders...
...Administration was only a few weeks old when Moore had earned a reputation for not returning Congressmen's phone calls. In October he was criticized for not warning key congressional backers of Israel that a joint U.S.-Soviet declaration on the Middle East was in the works. At about the same time he neglected to tell Representative Herman Badillo in advance that Carter planned to make a much-publicized walking tour of the South Bronx, the urban disaster area in Badillo's district. Last week House Democrats chided Moore and his White House colleagues for not putting...
...moves, but vowed to keep up the heat on Japan. Breakfasting with reporters, Chief Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss asserted: "We think some adjustments have to be made and made soon." When? "This afternoon," cracked Strauss. He reported that he is getting four to ten phone calls a day from Congressmen worried about foreign competition...
...administration had listed hospital cost containment as one of its five top legislative priorities, it has taken a back seat to the energy issue and the Panama Canal treaty. The President realized that Congress could deal with only so much legislation at a time. So his letters to key congressmen urging them with his blessing to enact health cost control legislation were in vain. It has since become obvious that the administration's hospital cost control bill will not become law this year...
...some months this year have captured 20% of the U.S. market. Combined with lackluster domestic demand, that foreign invasion has caused shutdowns of old mills, forcing more than 60,000 workers out of jobs in the past year. Steel executives, union men and a new caucus of Congressmen from steel-producing areas have brought heavy pressure on the Carter Administration to do something. The President's first response was to invite steelmen to file complaints against the "dumping" of foreign metal-that is, selling it below cost. The trouble is that though dumping violates both U.S. law and international...