Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understand why people criticize the Congressmen who made impassioned statements during the Iran-contra hearings. Would Edmund Burke or James Madison have sat meekly by in similar circumstances? Only in the course of investigations into a Watergate or an Iranscam do Americans have the opportunity to hear their lawmakers expound their political philosophies...
Until the attack on the Stark, former Chief of Staff Don Regan, his successor Howard Baker and other top White House aides never focused on the - political or military risks involved. Nor did the Congressmen who were informed seem interested in a full briefing. With the uproar over the Stark and the subsequent flurry of publicity about the reflagging plan, Baker and his men realized that the risks had not been adequately weighed. But by then it was impossible to back off, especially in the face of Iran's public crowing about the U.S.'s helplessness...
...Pentagon requests for the most complicated of systems," says New York Congressman Charles Schumer, a member of the Budget Committee. "Yet so often when our military has to function in the real world, they're unable to get the job done." The Kuwaiti reflagging is particularly worrisome to many Congressmen because the Administration seems to have stumbled into an open-ended commitment. Senator Bumpers is part of a bipartisan group that has introduced legislation requiring that the reflagging be ended within six months...
...Many Congressmen believe that support for financial aid and other higher education programs is essential for building a trained work force capable of handling high technology. Such ability is critical for improving America's faltering position in international trade...
Even so, leaking is indeed a classic tool in the hardscrabble world of Washington politics. Congressmen, who are generally given only the outlines of a covert operation, occasionally hint their opposition to a secret activity without actually exposing it. Intelligence officials, on the other hand, leak for a wider variety of motives: to support or reshape an operation (such as assistance to the Afghan guerrillas), sometimes to score points or advance their political position...