Word: congressmen
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...Clinton is to act boldly, he will first have to make everyone, friend and foe, understand exactly what he is trying to do. In a meeting with Congressmen, the President asked what would happen if limited intervention failed to end the war. Would there be an acceptable way to withdraw? The answer was a resounding no, reminding Clinton that once into Bosnia, there will be no easy...
After a sobering tour of Bosnia's battlefields, Senator Joe Biden came back to Washington last month and declared, "The U.S. must lead the West in a decisive response to Serbian aggression, beginning with air attacks on Serbian artillery." Senators Bob Dole and George Mitchell agreed, as did 47 Congressmen and 12 State Department officials who took the unusual step of petitioning Secretary of State Warren Christopher to back the use of military force against the Serbs. Ambassador to the U.N. Madeleine Albright sent a memorandum directly to the President in which she advocated air strikes...
...count on a hefty budget for aids research, which along with breast cancer is the only disease to have received more money in the Clinton Administration's National Institutes of Health budget. Critics have been grumbling that AIDS absorbs 10% of the NIH outlay. Now gay activists predict more Congressmen will echo Congressman Robert Dornan, who said of gays last week, "They've lost their edge on the floor. This collapse in their figures will influence the aids debate significantly...
What happens to leftover campaign contributions after Congressmen leave office? Some highlights from an AP survey of official reports filed by former Representatives...
After Gunn's murder, representatives from three abortion-rights groups held a joint press conference with two Democratic Congressmen to call for an FBI probe of the antiabortion movement. Congress is expected to speed up action on a bill that would make it a federal crime, punishable by up to three years in prison, to blockade an abortion clinic. At a meeting with the President on Thursday, members of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues urged him to support legislation that would strengthen federal antistalking laws. The President, says Colorado Democrat Patricia Schroeder, "was fully in agreement that this...