Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal would face tough, almost insurmountable opposition in Congress, which considers a new tax as a pox in an election year. Typical of what special-interest groups will tell their Congressmen is the observation of a Southern California Auto Club spokesman: "The tax is just a scam to increase Government revenues and the federal bureaucracy at the expense of good-hearted people across the country...
Even as Carter was telling 100 Congressmen at a White House buffet dinner last week that the idea of a stiff gasoline tax "is looking better and better," legislators were beginning to snipe at the idea. Said powerful Democratic Congressman Charles Vanik of Ohio: "Are you crazy? Fifty cents is out of the ballpark...
ABLE TO LEAP logical abysses with a single bound, American leaders have looked at the crisis in Iran and cheerfully decided that it marks a watershed in American foreign policy, an end to the "post-Vietnam era." America's existential agony after Vietnam is over, congressmen and State Department experts contend, and henceforth the American public will be more willing to accept military intervention in Third World nations without questioning the need. The arrogance of a mob of Iranian students in Tehran, in other words, has unwittingly written out a carte blanche for the arrogance of American power abroad...
...next Henry Kissinger will have his pet mechanized division to send off to the next Angola, thanks to the recent presidential decision to fund the force. The White House, hawkish congressmen and the Pentagon itself are using the fear excited by the embassy takeover to effect a turnabout in foreign policy too quick for anyone to protest. The quick-strike force makes up only one part of the pro-military campaign; a reinvigorated opposition to ratifying the SALT II arms limitation treaty will undoubtedly follow, and new demands for giving the Central Intelligence Agency more freedom to act covertly abroad...
...class has produced conservative politics. Republicans are still vastly outnumbered by Democrats, 1.7 million to 81,000, but the G.O.P. is making rapid gains, and many of the state's Democrats are so conservative that they act, and vote, like Republicans. Three of the state's eight Congressmen are now Republicans, and a fourth Republican missed being elected last year by just 266 votes...