Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both the President and his Cabinet put in a lot of gas mileage in their nationwide speechmaking, all their energy actually was directed toward influencing critical events back in Washington. There, amid the chandeliered splendor of the Senate Caucus Room, an unwieldy 43-member conference committee of Senators and Congressmen met for the first time last week. Their challenge was to reconcile the vast differences between energy legislation passed by the House, which gave Carter almost everything, and by the Senate, which has not yet completed its work but seems bent on giving Carter almost nothing but the back...
...House committee approved the bill in August, a fund-raising cocktail party for Chairman Murphy in Washington garnered $9,950 from maritime sources for his 1978 campaign. "That doesn't mean I'm bought," snapped Murphy angrily after Common Cause broke the news. But the fact that Congressmen had to deny they were selling votes showed how counterproductive the lobbying effort had become...
...congressional fight over the President's energy program is resolved, and thus avoid getting the tax-revision proposals entangled in that scrap. Also, the White House has lately become increasingly concerned about possible sluggishness in the economy next year, and about the stiffening resistance of businessmen and some Congressmen to the tax-reform plan, even before it has officially been announced. In order both to pep up the economy and, they hope, disarm critics, Administration planners are subtly shifting the emphasis of the tax package from a program of reform to one of stimulative tax cuts, especially for business...
...possibility of laying a cable from a satellite in geostationary orbit all the way down to the earth's surface. Payloads could then be sent up the cable by mechanical means, creating an "electric elevator to space, or a Streetcar Named Heaven." Clarke ended his formal remarks before the Congressmen with a reversal of the ancient astrologers' dictum: "The time may come when men control the destinies of stars...
...Congressmen found Clarke's ruminations on space travel to be far-fetched but not unbelievable. In the discussion that followed, Clarke fielded questions about the potential cost overrun on space colonization and traded reminiscences of the cartoon strip Buck Rogers with Rep. Thomas N. Downing (D-Va.). The essay provides an amusing, edifying and somewhat poignant look at how space policy...