Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faces tremendous opposition. It's so skewed in favor of military spending and domestic cuts. Senators and Congressmen are outraged at its total slap at education," said Shattuck...
...today come closer to Madison's definition of "faction" than political action committees (PACs). Created as a result of a federal election law reform, PACs have steadily--and ironically--mushroomed into a powerful tool for influencing legislation. And as the PACs have grown, so too have the number of congressmen who know how to transform skillfully the groups' ready and generous campaign contributions into repeated electoral victories...
...forestall such developments, Congressmen from oil and gas states are seeking an oil import fee to raise the price of foreign crude and protect the U.S. energy industry. Says Democratic Senator David Boren of Oklahoma, who last week wrote Reagan urging him to support the plan: "If prices fall further, it will bring our exploration to a screeching halt." At Boren's request, Oregon Republican Bob Packwood, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, agreed last week to hold hearings on the proposal...
...aide to Reagan. Congress last year limited U.S. help to the contras to $27 million in humanitarian supplies and cut off all military aid. Only days after that decision, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra flew off to visit Moscow; interpreting the trip as a nose-thumbing gesture, some Congressmen said they regretted having rejected the military funding. Ortega's government has cracked down further on the freedom of the clergy and the press. "People have come to know the real nature of that regime, and there's more support now to try to correct it," insisted an aide...
...there is much resistance to getting the U.S. involved in Angola, where a Marxist government is being opposed by the UNITA troops of Jonas Savimbi. He is expected to get a warm reception at a visit to the White House this week. The State Department, as well as many Congressmen, remains opposed to any open U.S. aid to the rebels. The drawbacks: it could link the U.S. to the government of South Africa, which has been covertly allied with Savimbi, and scuttle efforts to force Cuba to remove the 30,000 troops it has in Angola...