Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, the House and Senate codes will inflict some inequities on members, depending upon their sources of outside income. Lawyers who draw fees and salaries, for example, cannot convert their income to unrestricted stock holdings; Congressmen connected with corporations can. Indeed, the estimated 22 millionaires in the House will be unaffected, since their income is mainly in inherited wealth, farms, family companies and dividends...
...front-page attention to a curious story inside headlined: POST ATTITUDE "VERY RESPONSIBLE" IN WHITE HOUSE DEALINGS ON CIA STORY. This story quotes Jody Powell, the presidential press secretary, in support of the Post, though Powell did not deny that the President himself in private meetings with Cabinet and Congressmen had called the Post irresponsible. Where does that leave everybody...
Unfortunately, even Carter's token reductions are likely to encounter spirited opposition from congressmen whose districts will thereby suffer adverse economic consequences. The decision to end production of the A-7E attack plane, for example, would force the closing of the Vought Corporation's Dallas plant, a move that has angered several influential congressmen, including House Majority Leader Rep. James Wright (D-Tex.) and House Appropriations Committee Chairman George H. Mahon (D-Tex.). Proposals to terminate production of the Minuteman III missile and cutback orders of F-15 fighter planes have provoked similar responses...
...construction workers will be laid off. "That's a damn poor way to create jobs," complained Democratic Congressman Morris Udall, who was on somewhat shaky ground in making the statement; he had not had CAP in mind when he signed a letter with more than 70 other Congressmen earlier this month urging savings in unnecessary public works projects...
...Paris initiative was the clearest sign yet of President Jimmy Carter's determination to carry out a campaign promise to send such a mission to Hanoi. Carter reiterated that pledge in January at a confidential meeting with seven U.S. Congressmen. On that occasion, Carter mentioned U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young or veteran Envoy Averell Harriman as possible heads of the peace team. But he emphasized that he will direct the course of any negotiations personally from the White House...