Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tiny Amount. With Carter's campaign endorsement of an agency, consumer groups were more confident of victory this year. Yet in the House, many members question whether consumers would really be served by another layer of bureaucrats and red tape. Instead of creating a new consumer agency, the Congressmen suggest, the public can get along with the regulatory agencies-even though some critics think they also need reforming-and the 13 separate consumer offices that Gerald Ford set up within major departments...
...consumer interest is, but it is better to represent consumers imprecisely than not at all. On the big questions--nuclear power plant siting, saccharin in foods, fluoride in the water--consumers are adequately represented. Newspapers publicize these issues, consumer groups agitate over them, and concerned citizens write their congressmen about them. But on the regulations that escape public attention--regulations determining the width of crib slats, the amount of effluent to be dumped in an obscure rural stream, or the strength of side door reinforcements in automobiles--manufacturers always have a more deeply perceived--and more forcefully expressed--interest...
...without some formal or institutionalized means of representing consumers' interests in the day-to-day operations of the government, many of these decisions will be made subject only to the influence of organized and well-financed business interest groups. Pro-business regulations often will be established, not because congressmen are sinister or because bureaucrats have been bribed, but because only one side of the story is being told...
...request of $120.4 billion for fiscal 1978. But aside from that, Brown has turned out to be an excellent Pentagon advocate on the Hill, neither talking down to Senators and Representatives nor overwhelming them with facts, as McNamara used to do. Among other things, he moved quickly to reassure Congressmen in the face of warnings that the Soviet Union was rapidly achieving military superiority over the U.S. This might be Brown's most remarkable achievement so far. His confidence that America can maintain deterrence and the military balance without crash programs has quieted all but the most hawkish voices...
...sweeping reduction of nuclear weapons. Brezhnev's "nyet," however, put the Soviet Union on the defensive, and Moscow has since been working hard at trying to show it is not stonewalling on arms limitation. Earlier this month, three top Soviet Americanologists visited the U.S. in hopes of convincing Congressmen and Administration officials that Russia was not being obstinate. Publicly, Brezhnev says he thinks that "a reasonable accommodation is possible" at Geneva...