Word: congressmen
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...wealthy philanthropist, former congressmen, and close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, Littauer hoped to establish a school to provide training in a "broad way for public service...
...from the Capitol, it held an all-day seminar for congressional staffers. The guests of honor: two top contra officers and a Nicaraguan opposition journalist. A week later Heritage issued a brisk nine-page report titled Nicaragua's Terrorist Connection, copies of which were distributed by hand to all Congressmen and to targeted staff members. Heritage's pro-contra blitz was on. The reign of the pensive, passive, pipe-smoking Washington think tank is under assault. These venerable research institutions, which sprang up in the first decades of this century, are being upstaged by groups of intellectual crusaders that helped...
...million Americans regularly use cocaine and that annual cocaine-related deaths have tripled since 1982, from 202 to more than 600 in 1985.White House polls show that the public is more worried about drugs than about such matters as the federal budget deficit and arms control. Congressmen, particularly Democrats trying to find an election issue for this fall, are tripping all over one another to introduce free-spending antidrug legislation. The President's wife has long been in the forefront of the drug war with a "Just Say No" campaign that she has doggedly propagated to the nation's youth...
...right here and now that our response to demands that we cut off or delay research and testing and close shop is: No way. SDI is no bargaining chip." Even that was not enough for some of SDI's most ardent supporters. Just before his speech, eight conservative Congressmen met with Reagan to press him to deploy portions of a space defense as soon as any are ready rather than wait into the 1990s for the full system to be operational. In his later talk, the President in effect said no to that demand also: "I know there are those...
After travelling over the Rockies, across deserts and through the Great Plains, the group stopped in Washington D.C. to discuss the problem of hunger with their Congressmen and to urge them to support appropriations for the Child Immunization Act, a bill now being considered in the House, said Carolyn McColley...