Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debate is far from over. The law requires that witnesses testify truthfully before congressional committees-but it does not require that Congressmen keep their mouths shut. Even when testifying before the congressional oversight committee, a CIA chief might be uneasy about blowing the cover of a current operation or exposing the methods and personnel of past projects. Despite the Helms case, drawing the line between an ultimate public accounting and a current operational imperative will always remain a difficult task for those who direct clandestine operations abroad...
...host of the zany NBC's Saturday Night Live. In one routine he deadpanned his way through a comic turn satirizing none other than Ralph Nader. The effort backfired in one respect: though the skit was indeed amusing, Nader portrayed himself altogether too accurately as a driven zealot. Congressmen agree that Nader does his homework, but they are repelled by his insistence that his position is the only morally right one. Says Representative David Obey, Wisconsin Democrat: "Members are just fed up with being equated with evil if they vote against Nader...
...newspaper in New York, a classified report written by the House Intelligence Committee after its investigation of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activities. Although much of the information contained in the document already had been made public by Schorr and other journalists, the actual publication of the report piqued many Congressmen, who viewed the incident as symptomatic of a well-known Capitol Hill malady, the inability of Congress to keep secrets...
...this bullet-biting spirit, the House last week voted hefty increases in Social Security taxes for most U.S. workers and their employers, starting next year. Actually, the Congressmen had no choice. Persistently high unemployment rates have meant a loss of billions in revenue for the system. Benefits for the 30 million people now drawing checks from Social Security are depleting its reserves?$46.1 billion in fiscal 1977?at an accelerating rate. The deficit that year was $5.6 billion. Unless something was done, the system was expected to go broke by the early 1980s. To keep it from drowning...
...National Prohibition Party's presidential candidate garnered more than 270,000 votes-or 2.2% of the total. Over the following decade the party was strong enough to elect several Congressmen, a few Governors and lots of local officials. In last year's election, a paltry 15,893 voters-.02% of the total-pulled the Prohibitionist lever. Moreover, the party, which was formed in 1869 and is the nation's third oldest, has not elected anybody to anything since the days when people drank their whisky out of teacups. What to do? Last week the party did what...