Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demand that Lance rid himself so precipitately of his stock holdings. The President's decision to relax his demand for Lance's sake undoubtedly aroused sympathy among Democrats on the committee. Besides, the gregarious Lance seems to have made a favorable impression on a great many Congressmen during his six months in Washington. Said a White House source: "If this had happened in January, Bert probably couldn't have survived. But now he's made a lot of friends in Congress...
...barrage of expert-sounding figures prepared by professionals in the President's Office of Management and Budget. All that changed, or was supposed to, three years ago, when the legislators created their own Congressional Budget Office and staffed it with their own economic wizards. But a good many Congressmen are still complaining irritably-this time about their own experts...
...figures to work with. Now CBO studies on defense issues have allowed us to take a really good look at costs. The same goes for proposed food-stamp and Social Security reform." In short, the information supplied by the CBO holds down spending because it forces ordinarily open-wallet Congressmen to face up to deficits. Majority Leader James Wright of Texas was particularly incensed a few months ago when Rivlin said her office estimated that the Government could not possibly spend as much on public works projects in the current year as the House leadership estimated. Wright sputtered, but could...
...sense of urgency has prompted business lobbyists to use more aggressive tactics. On the common situs bill, explains Forrest Rettgers, executive vice president of the NAM, "we overlooked nothing." Rettgers even lobbied black Congressmen, whom business groups previously had ignored, telling them that minority contractors, who employ mainly nonunion workers, would be hurt by the bill's passage...
...both that campaign and the one against the consumer protection agency, business lobbyists also roused the folks back home to put heat on Congress. They formed Southern businessmen's groups to exhort Dixie House members, and some corporations sent letters to stockholders urging them to write to Congressmen in opposition to the consumer agency. Says Andrew Biemiller, chief AFL-CIO lobbyist: "One thing they can do is flood that goddamned Hill with letters." Motley adds that the N.F.I.B. can turn out "local auto dealers, local accountants and dry cleaners, hardware dealers, dairymen-Kiwanians, Lions, church people. When we tell...