Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year, has hinted that he will switch his vote. Goldwater has already stated that the controversial missile, which would cost $20 billion to $30 billion, is dead. The bill for Star Wars, now in the earliest stages of research, will not come due for many years, but some Congressmen are threatening to strangle this Reagan-policy brainchild in the crib...
...Reagan may prove to have surprising staying power. "Don't underestimate the President's ability to go to the country," warns Vice President George Bush. Reagan is not an insider like Lyndon Johnson, who would deal and wheedle, reward and punish. Reagan's way of disciplining Congressmen is simpler: he just goes on TV and turns their constituents against them. Indeed, the term lame duck loses much of its meaning with a President who knows how to use television as a bully pulpit...
Reagan has always been extraordinarily adept at talking over the heads of Congressmen and the federal bureaucracy to the public at large. The Inaugural theme of "We the People . . . An American Celebration," taken from the ^ preamble to the Constitution (which, as Reagan's luck would have it, will be 200 years old in 1987), is not just a pleasantly corny celebration of democracy. To many citizens, the implicit foe of We the People is They the Government. There has never been much question about whose side Ronald Reagan is on, even after he became Chief Executive of the Government...
Patterson's switch from legislator to lobbyist is an increasingly attractive choice for Congressmen who have lost or given up their seats. Reluctant to sever family and social ties in Washington, lured by bigger money than they could earn back home, they cash in on their Government experience and contacts by becoming advocates for industries, unions, trade groups and special interests of all stripes. Robert McGlotten, president of the American League of Lobbyists, estimates that as many as 200 retired Congressmen represent clients around the Capitol. "The Hill is crawling with them," says Nancy Drabble, director of the consumers' lobby...
...endorsed as a member of the House Interior Committee. Says Washington Career Lobbyist Thomas H. Boggs Jr.: "They see people making a lot more money than they do, and they see lobbying as an opportunity. They weigh that against ten to 15 more years in politics." Ex-Congressmen who do not go home are a Washington tradition. Former Senators Birch Bayh and John Sherman Cooper have Washington law practices. Onetime Minnesota Congressman Clark MacGregor is a senior vice president of United Technologies, the manufacturing conglomerate. Some former members are more powerful than they were as Congressmen: James D. McKevitt...