Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before the vote, 2,000 delegates at the National Council of Senior Citizens convention in Las Vegas took turns manning phones to remind Congressmen that the council's 4.5 million members were watching. The 28 million-member American Association of Retired Persons also supported the bill. Far more effective, however, was a letter-writing campaign by one of the House's mightiest chairmen, burly Dan Rostenkowski of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. He and Chairman John Dingell of the Energy and Commerce Committee were incensed that Pepper had struck a deal to bypass their committees and take...
...book published by a printer who did $300,000 of work for the Speaker's last re-election campaign, and his use of an aide to help produce the book during office hours. Wright quickly released a 23-page refutation of the charges. He accused the 72 Republican Congressmen who demanded the inquiry of political motivations, ignoring the fact that Common Cause also had urged...
Should Carlucci try to cancel some major weapons systems, he would have no guarantee of succeeding. Generals and admirals have become adept at making end runs around their own civilian chiefs to enlist the support of sympathetic Congressmen. And for all their bellowing about vast sums of money wasted on weapons that do not work, few legislators will vote for military economies likely to hurt their own districts. One example: the Pentagon could save perhaps $2 billion a year by closing unneeded military bases, but Congress has not permitted a major base closing since...
...Wright have been accumulating for years, like interest at the troubled savings and loan associations he has been accused of helping a little too much. But the allegations took on a new seriousness two weeks ago, when the citizens' lobby Common Cause, followed several days later by 72 Republican Congressmen, asked the House ethics committee to investigate...
...occupied by many members of Congress: that safe, vast expanse between a simple thanks for services performed and an envelope stuffed with cash. Congressman Newt Gingrich, who led the Republican move against the Speaker, did not include the allegations concerning the Texas savings and loan associations, perhaps because other Congressmen could be open to criticism for similar activity. Gingrich faced embarrassment, anyway, when it was revealed that he kept a $13,000 advance for a book he never wrote...