Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That impression has been strengthened still more by the fact that the lawmakers have pushed into 1978?an election year for all Congressmen and 33 Senators?some of the rougher fights: Panama Canal treaty ratification, welfare reform, tax reform. Says Massachusetts Democrat Gerry Studds: "We don't really have a great deal to show so far. The big issues have either not been addressed or are unresolved...
Arrayed against him at the same time is the most formidable army of doubters and special-interest representatives ever to face a President. There are now an estimated 1,000 lobby groups at work in the capital. They are staffed by experts, often ex-bureaucrats and former Congressmen. They have more money to spend than ever before. Last Thursday morning Carter came face to face with a full-page ad in the Washington Post headlined DEMAGOGUERY AT THE WHITE HOUSE, an assault on Carter's political offensive against oil companies. Forty-one economists signed the ad, and the National Taxpayers...
After nearly ten months of closed-door sessions and intensive staff work (not to mention occasional leaks to the press), the House Ethics Committee last week held the first public airing of its investigation of South Korea's attempts to curry favor in the U.S. by bribing Congressmen and other officials. Not surprisingly, the three days of hearings further depressed relations between the U.S. and South Korea, which were already at an all-time low. Committee Special Counsel Leon Jaworski expressed the mood on Capitol Hill in his opening statement before the committee. The regime of President Park Chung...
...first secretary in the embassy, Kim Sang Keun, discussed two bribery operations, "Ice Mountain" and "White Snow," and implicated President Park -whose own code name, Kim said, was "the Patriarch." Though he had, on orders from the Korean CIA, destroyed the Ice Mountain list of 40 to 50 Congressmen the agency wanted to buy, Kim said he remembered many of the names and had given them to the committee staff. Another embassy defector, Jai Hyon Lee, repeated a now familiar story of how he had accidentally surprised Ambassador Kim Dong Jo in his office stuffing envelopes containing cash into...
...meetings with the business leaders so they can get to know me better and understand what our long-range objectives might be. We have a problem with the steel industry in our country. I had a very productive meeting in this room last week with labor, management, economists and Congressmen who are interested in the steel industry in our nation. The first statement that was made was by the steel executives: "We do not want quotas; we do not want trade barriers to prevent imports of steel. What we want is an enforcement of the American antidumping laws. What...