Word: congressmen
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CONGRESS has drafted this new piece of legislation in response to public pressure that demands action on the drug crisis. Yet "responding to public pressure" does not in itself mean that congressmen are cynically using an issue as a tool to win votes. And to snidely proclaim, as the press does, that any congressional action during an election year is inherently mere political pandering makes little sense...
...freshman Congressman won a tough primary fight in 1986, beating out a crowded field of candidates in a bitter campaign where the inexperienced Kennedy was generally considered a political lightweight. Shortly after the election, the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics sponsored a week-long seminar for incoming congressmen. Kennedy was described by participants as inattentive, impatient and flippant. After skipping a speech by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Voloker to attend a Boston Celtics Game, Kennedy told the press that "I didn't run for Congress to set a good attendance record in school...
...Younger congressmen, who were not involved in the 1975 struggle for District home rule and whose impressions of the city's ability to run itself have been shaped by the scandals of the Barry administration, are now gaining key posts in the District Appropriations Committee...
Whether or not one agrees with the controversial laws Congress knocked down, the legislative threat to withhold tax money actually raised by the citizens for the day-to-day administration of their own elected government negates the principle of local self-government. Unfortunately, such principles mean little to congressmen who believe that anti-abortion and anti-gay votes will bolster their reelection prospects...
During an otherwise routine press conference, Speaker of the House Jim Wright said last week he had "received clear testimony" that the CIA helped orchestrate anti-Sandinista demonstrations in Nicaragua to provoke the government of President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Republican Congressmen pounced, demanding that the House Ethics Committee investigate whether the Texas Democrat had violated rules barring disclosure of testimony given in closed hearings...