Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sophisticated lobbying has collaborated with an exquisitely subdivided system to subvert larger goals. "Congress is fragmented into 300 committees and subcommittees now," complains Joseph Califano, the just purged HEW Secretary. The committees almost inevitably grow into guardians of their specialties. Huge staffs, not the elected Congressmen, preside over the drafting of bills, establishing directions and priorities that should be set by leaders, not bureaucrats and clerks...
...Southern city, Jackson brought a talent for improvisational politics to bear on the construction of Atlanta's new Midfield Airport terminal, which, when it opens in 1980, will be the largest air passenger building in the world. Among other things, Jackson persuaded Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge to summon Georgia Congressmen and federal, state and local officials concerned with the project to a meeting in his Washington office. There they managed to break through a jurisdictional logjam that had stalled the project in the planning stage for eleven years...
...American support, Somoza placed all his high-ranking Guardia officers with 30 years or more service on the retirement list. That step allowed them to immediately abandon their commands and seek refuge in the U.S. or elsewhere in Latin America. As Somoza's officers planned their getaways, Nicaraguan Congressmen who had been confined in Managua's Intercontinental Hotel grew increasingly panicky. Finally, they were called into a post-midnight session. They unanimously accepted Somoza's resignation and conferred the blue-and-white sash, symbolic of the presidency, on his longtime flunky, former Health Minister Francisco Urcuyo Malia...
...trying to figure out who will be speaking for the Administration on energy. The distraction should not be allowed to last long. The energy question will remain urgent, and will demand solutions, long after Carter's formation of his new Cabinet-and after both he and the Congressmen who will be voting on his plans have left office...
...synthetic fuels would be the most ambitious technical venture that the U.S. has ever undertaken. From outright subsidies to price guarantees, the Government would offer many incentives for private firms to produce oil-like liquids and natural gas from the nation's plentiful coal, shale rock and biomass.* Congressmen are infatuated with the idea of synthetic-fuel production. Cracks Representative Clarence Brown of Ohio: "Every committee in Congress has a synfuel bill, except the Ethics Committee...