Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, the consensus of experts is not enough to convince lawmakers on Capitol Hill, especially Democratic Congressmen who rely on the traditional support of organized labor, which opposes NAFTA. The Clinton Administration hopes to lure some Democrats with a promise to provide job training to those who do lose their jobs to increased competition from Mexico. But even with substantial support from Republicans, who generally back free trade, Clinton will need to secure the support of at least 100 House Democrats before NAFTA comes to a vote later this year. Right now he has fewer than...
Until last Thursday. On that day, Mrs. Clinton visited Capitol Hill to persuade key Congressmen that she welcomed their suggestions. But Fortney Stark, the irascible California Democrat who chairs the House health subcommittee, complained that he could not seriously study the plan under Mrs. Clinton's ground rules: that legislators could see it only in guarded "reading rooms" in the Capitol, where they would be forbidden to make copies or take notes. By early evening, majority leader Dick Gephardt ordered that they be given copies of the plan. And by 6 p.m., copies of those copies began making their...
...group's president said he'd retained the lobbyist because "we felt he was the right person to get us in to talk to certain Senators and Congressmen." But the Democratic insider thundered against the suggestion that his "valuable connections" would come in handy...
...President's budget plan, Illinois Representative Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, found himself under the threat of a criminal indictment. His troubles resulted from last week's guilty plea by former House postmaster Robert Rota, who admitted that he had helped several unnamed Congressmen embezzle tens of thousands of dollars from the House Post Office. A comparison of court papers with public records indicated that Rostenkowski may have been one of these Congressmen. He denies the allegations. Federal prosecutors have not said whether they will seek indictments...
...where he dozed a bit before meeting with Wisconsin's Governor and one of its Congressmen. He then flew to the flood-damaged area and announced that two dozen counties were federal disaster areas...