Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Less heartening were the noises coming from Washington, where a steady procession of Congressmen complained that tax reform is the wrong issue at the wrong time. Returning from the barbecues and fish fries of the August recess, the lawmakers insisted that voters were more worried about America's mounting trade woes and the federal budget deficit...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who led a delegation of four American Congressmen in a visit to Gorbachev in April, told him that he seemed to have come out of nowhere. Gorbachev replied with a smile that "in the Soviet Union, there are many places to hide." As late as 1978, he was well enough hidden that few Soviet citizens, let alone Americans, had ever heard his name. His biography until that point was brief: son of Stavropol peasants, law graduate of Moscow State University, holder of various regional Communist Party positions for 23 years. Much about the formative influences...
...American manufacturers have lost the battle in the marketplace, they have tried to recoup in the political arena. For more than a year the industry has been waging a campaign to persuade President Reagan to impose quotas on shoes made overseas. Enlisted in the effort were 168 Congressmen, 40 Senators and 20 Governors, who sent letters or telegrams to the President. Shoe workers staged a two-day vigil in Lafayette Square, across from the White House...
Democrats, who have maintained that Reagan's budget cuts have increased poverty, did not see the bureau's report as an endorsement of Reaganomics. In a joint statement, Democratic Congressmen Charles B. Rangel of New York and Robert T. Matsui of California noted that the 1984 poverty rate was higher than for any year from 1970 to 1980, that the rate for black children under six increased and that the gap between rich and poor was not getting narrower...
...former member of the National Alcohol Fuels Commission, Democratic Congressman Bill Alexander of Arkansas wanted to take advantage of the August recess to inspect Brazil's production of ethanol. It is an unwritten House rule that Congressmen can request the services of a Pentagon plane only if three or four of them travel together. So Alexander invited four of his colleagues to join him on his six-day sojourn. He sent their names to Speaker Tip O'Neill, who asked the Pentagon to secure a jet for the group. But when the Air Force C-9 took...