Word: congressmen
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...California's very democratic election laws in order to increase their own power. Unlike the federal government, California and most other states require their Supreme Court Justices periodically to stand for approval by the voters. This year, not only will the people elect a governor, a senator, and 45 congressmen, but they will also decide the fate of six of the state's seven Supreme Court Justices...
...imitation, they chose the genuine article." If "real Democrat" is defined as liberal, the returns in several key contests bear her out. In Georgia, for example, Hamilton Jordan ran on a platform of moving the party to the center but lost to Wyche Fowler, the most liberal Congressmen in the state. In New York, John Dyson had ample money and mushy moderate ideas; he lost to Mark Green, a pugnacious reformer. The clearest choice was in Pennsylvania, where Congressman Bob Edgar ran against State Auditor General Don Bailey; the claim of "real Democrat" flew like a shuttlecock. While...
...codes, if an organization pays a politician to give a speech, it is permitted to pay him reasonable travel expenses. As a result, reports the citizens' lobby Common Cause, all-expense-paid nights away from home have increased 50% among Senators over the past five years and 200% among Congressmen. One example: Minnesota Senate Republican David Durenberger and his two sons, 21 and 23, were able to wrap a free and entirely legal six-day Caribbean vacation around the Senator's informal meeting with Puerto Rican health officials and a speech he delivered to Squibb Corp. executives...
...number of Congressmen, the term drug war is not to be taken lightly. As the House argued over its bill on drug abuse two weeks ago, several lawmakers employed the rhetoric of war in discussing the nation's fight against narcotics. Republican E. Clay Shaw of Florida called drugs "the biggest threat that we have ever had to our national security." South Carolina Republican Thomas Hartnett declared them "a threat worse than any nuclear warfare or any chemical warfare waged on any battlefield...
...talk of restraint on the subject of curbing drug abuse. House Speaker Tip O'Neill last week said he would favor new taxes to pay for the plan. "I'm afraid this bill % is the legislative equivalent of crack," said Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, one of the handful of Congressmen who voted against the package. "It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system. And it's expensive to boot...