Word: congressmen
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...Benedict Arnolds. Perhaps it was because they donate millions to the Republicans' campaign coffers. It could also have something to do with the fact that these men and women, who evidently decided that being American was not worth sharing in the common burden, hired high-priced lobbyists, including ex-congressmen, who roamed the hallowed halls of the house of democracy convincing our representatives that it was in the national interest to debase the idea of citizenship...
...Church Committee did not go that far, but the bureau conspicuously pulled in its horns. It learned another lesson a few years later when it captured on video members of Congress taking bribes from undercover agents posing as Arab businessmen. The public was outraged at the Congressmen, and juries ultimately convicted seven of them, but Congress was upset with the FBI and launched an inquiry into the bureau's Abscam investigation. And then the FBI got into trouble for investigating CISPES (the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), a group it believed was supporting leftist rebels...
...then, though, the decision was shifting out of his hands. In Washington the Administration had been wracked by tension: spats between Kissinger and Schlesinger, frustration over conflicting reports about just how bad the situation in Saigon was. Ford had suffered an unprecedented insult a few days earlier when two Congressmen walked out of a joint session at which he pleaded for unity. Late in the afternoon of April 28 (early morning of the 29th in Saigon), Kissinger's deputy Brent Scowcroft burst into a meeting of Ford with his energy and economic advisers, bearing a message about the rocket...
Ignoring the spectacle outside the window, two Republican Congressmen and four staff members sat around a table, working the phones. "Hey, we need some help with Metcalf," DeLay shouted. Across the hall Andrea Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition, an organization of 31,000 fundamentalist and evangelical churches, alerted the group's lobbyists to start calling the office of the freshman Republican from Washington State. Then she headed out the door to look for Jack Metcalf in person...
TIME Washington correspondent Nina Burleighsays Republican congressmen David McIntosh of Indiana and Matt Salman of Arizona are circulating a letter urging the members to drop their opposition. "They regard it as a fig leaf allowing these members to come back into the fold," Burleigh says...