Word: congressmen
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...President Richard Nixon. After a six-year stint as head of the American Meat Institute, he returned to the USDA as Deputy Secretary during Reagan's first term as President. In Washington he has earned a reputation as a smooth operator who can handle lobbyists, bureaucrats and even Congressmen, with a cool head. Thus it was no surprise last week when the President nominated Lyng to succeed John Block as Secretary of Agriculture. As farmers struggle with depressed prices and exorbitant interest rates, the new Secretary will have his work cut out for him. While Lyng has a more...
...seven newest heroes came on Friday at the Johnson Space Center near Houston, where they had lived and trained. Among those who gathered there, under gray skies on a grassy quadrangle amid the squat modern buildings, were some 6,000 employees of NASA and its contractors, 90 Senators and Congressmen, and about 200 relatives of Challenger's crew. Awaiting the start of the memorial service, while an Air Force band played funeral hymns, some of the mourners stood quietly in clusters, dabbing their eyes, while others stared sadly into space. A few held aloft small American flags as tears...
...State of the Union address, the President will try to depict his budget plan as an exciting opportunity to liberate the forces of free enterprise from the shackles of Big Government. It is doubtful that many Congressmen will be moved. Already last week some legislators were pronouncing the Reagan budget "dead before arrival." Still, more realistic Hill leaders were aware that the President's budget cannot be dismissed out of hand, as it has been in the past. Congressional budget writers may differ on how to get there, but Gramm-Rudman requires that Congress and the White House arrive...
...compromise at a "summit" meeting between Hill leaders of both parties and the Administration. So far, however, Reagan has shown no willingness to come to the bargaining table. He seems to believe that if he stands fast, the Hill will eventually blink and adopt his budget. He figures that Congressmen will not want to go to the voters in November to explain why they raised taxes and jeopardized national security...
Finger pointing is a traditional congressional substitute for legislative action. Even so, few Congressmen truly relish the prospect of a search for scapegoats. Most lawmakers know that if there is no sensible budget passed by September, there will be plenty of blame to distribute when the public begins to feel the bite of the Gramm-Rudman cuts just as voting day rolls around...