Word: congressmen
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...confirm him as a major player on the global stage and consolidate his power against Beijing hard-liners. While the nation?s leaders, on both sides of the aisle, are likely to accord Jiang the respect he needs, the Chinese leader's dealings with the press and hostile congressmen, a scheduled speech at Harvard, and the likelihood that he?ll be dogged by protests across the country, all create potential for damaging incidents beyond the control of the administration...
...Monday, AFL-CIO head John Sweeney begged congressmen to make the union stop spending money on them, calling for public funding of federal campaigns and limits on campaign contributions. Wednesday, President Clinton goes to Pittsburgh to address the union federation that spent an estimated $119 million on political activity in the 1996 elections...
...Congressmen prepare to give themselves a $3,000-a-year pay raise (AllPolitics...
...Even better for Clinton is that any fight over the issue is a long way off. Congestion in Congress will push the haggling off until 1998 ? an election year, where tobacco lobbies will find their favorite congressmen are suddenly more image-wary than ever. Clinton's list of demands contains a lot that Michael Moore and Co. decided they could live without. But with a can't-miss issue and a year to make it sing, this president can drive a very hard bargain...
Such First Amendment echoes make even conservative Congressmen nervous. "I endorse the notion of filtering devices at home," says Bob Goodlatte, a pro-CDA Republican Representative from Virginia, "but there's certainly a legitimate debate as to how to do it in libraries without introducing a major form of censorship...