Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police were on hand in full force. More than 100 blue-uniformed officers, representing major law-enforcement associations, formed an accusatory gauntlet outside the House of Representatives as Congressmen filed in to consider a bill to loosen federal gun controls. Later, after checking their own side arms, the police filled two sections of the spectators' gallery to watch the debate. Joining them was Sarah Brady, wife of White House Press Secretary James Brady, who was shot and partly paralyzed during John Hinckley's 1981 attack on President Reagan...
...last summer. The House bill retains the ban on interstate handguns and ends forever the sale and transfer of machine guns. It also keeps open the possibility of surprise inspections for gun dealers. All of these have been hotly contested by the NRA, and hearings or no hearings, many Congressmen were wise to the implications...
House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino has introduced a bill mandating a waiting period. The NRA opposes it, claiming that the public would be better served by McClure-Volkmer. As the NRA applies pressure to representatives, let us hope that congressmen have the courage and vision to accept the NRA for what it is--a narrow special interest which seeks to benefit gun dealers and users with little regard for the public welfare...
Instead Reagan has engaged in a campaign of red-baiting abroad and at home. His penchant for intervention abroad threatens to destabilize the Middle East as well as Central America. His charges that congressmen who opposed the Administration's aid package to the Contras were either supporting communism, or being duped by those who do, echoed those of another great name caller, Senator Joe McCarthy, who campaigned against what he called "a conspiracy so immense" that it extended from Moscow to the heart of the U.S. government...
...year after its founding, the new-look Democratic Leadership Council has found plenty of support for its call for a more conservative Democratic Party --without resorting to want ads. Organized by young, centrist Governors and Congressmen, many from the South and West, after Walter Mondale's rout in the 1984 presidential election, the D.L.C. set out to do three things: shift the party away from standard-brand liberalism, stem defections to the G.O.P., and create a climate for a moderate or conservative Democrat to succeed Ronald Reagan as President. What a difference a year makes. Notes Virginia ex- Governor Charles...