Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as they debate the ways to reduce federal borrowing, certain Congressmen have liabilities of their own to worry about, as indicated on their just released financial-disclosure forms...
After years of lonely spadework, Gasior is finally getting some respect. Two powerful Democratic Congressmen, Jack Brooks of Texas and Charlie Rose of North Carolina, took her findings to the White House and Attorney General Janet Reno last month. Their goal: to press for a re-examination of U.S. business ties to Iraq and the role of the Justice Department in a possible cover-up. Last week at a Washington reception, the Cavallo Foundation honored Gasior with a $10,000 award for her "moral courage" and for her efforts to ! expose wrongdoing. Said Rose at the ceremony: "She is remarkable...
...though, the battle is shifting into the area where Bentsen is at his best: lining up votes. Just before a crucial House ballot late last month, the Secretary persuaded two Texas Congressmen to switch and support the budget -- which then passed by three votes more than the minimum needed. From Moscow and Paris last week, where he had gone to confer with Boris Yeltsin and other top foreign leaders, Bentsen spent about 2 1/2 hours every day phoning White House officials, Moynihan and others to begin working out the details of a deal that might be acceptable to the Administration...
...counterparts at federal agencies that Clinton had decided "there is nothing any Cabinet Secretary is doing for the next two days that's more important than lobbying Congress." Working from White House lists of undecided lawmakers, Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy telephoned farm-state Representatives. Defense Secretary Les Aspin worked Congressmen with major military installations in their states. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt buttonholed Western lawmakers. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen reasoned with the Texas delegation. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor concentrated on Californians. During the next two days, the Clinton Administration bought, rented and bartered for every vote it could find. One Cabinet...
...foreign markets. By 4 p.m. Thursday, Clinton "hit the wall," said an aide who was present, still three votes short. Between the hours of 7 and 9 that night, while downing a huge hamburger and a plate of French fries, the President promised to play golf with three different Congressmen sometime this summer. The numbers kept moving, right down to the last 30 seconds. When it was over, Clinton and his aides looked around the Oval Office with a mixture of relief and astonishment. "That was the closest vote of my life," remarked Bentsen, who spent 28 years in Congress...