Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more transparent congressional maneuvers in recent memory: lawmakers last February voted against boosting their annual salaries from $77,400 to $89,500 -- one day after a presidential order establishing the pay hike had gone into effect. The move allowed Congressmen to tell constituents they opposed the increase even as they pocketed the extra cash...
...Administration realized that it would be difficult for congressmen to face their consitituents if they voted against any anti-drug bill. So two provisions--one calling for the execution of pushers convicted for the second time, and the other allowing courts to scrap the Exclusionary rule in cases of illegal searches and seizures involving drugs--nearly found their way into the All American drug bill...
...increase was a victory for Congressmen from the wide open spaces of the West, where freewheeling constituents feel cooped up by the old limit. As Democrat Pat Williams of Montana explained to his more constricted colleagues, "You can stand on the highway and see the earth curve out at the end, 60 miles of straight stretch, and sometimes you traverse that entire 60 miles and you only pass two cars. My friends, on the way to talk to 20 people in Montana, I run over 15 jackrabbits." Republican Dick Cheney of Wyoming echoed his neighbor: "Our Western rural interstates...
...m.p.h. increase. The new speed limit is a rider to an $88 billion authorization bill for highways and mass transit that may be vetoed by the President. Ronald Reagan, who is all for upping the speed limit, feels that the bill is on the expensive side. Congressmen, however, want those federal dollars for their states, and will gun their engines to fight a veto...
Gearan said aides were trying to schedule a meeting between Dukakis and a group of congressmen headed by Rep. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.), to discuss possible federal legislation on beefed up tax enforcement based on the commonwealth's tightened tax collecting policies under Dukakis...