Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...model you set up, it is basically that these Congressmen would have to be, in essence, robots to that sort...
...Congressmen are fleeing Washington. Many career Capitol Hill aides are also depressed and planning to quit. Look for soft real estate values in northern Virginia...
...paradox is striking: voters are demanding in their leaders the personal virtues that they decreasingly demand of themselves. The trend is not confined to matters of sex and family. There's money too. The public has worked itself into a righteous frenzy over Congressmen overdrawing checks at the (private -- no taxpayer money involved) House bank. This, while the American public, without any discernible protest, annually overdraws its national account by $400 billion a year, which amounts to the average family of four borrowing over $6,000 from its children to pay for its current indulgences. There is a word...
...former colonial rulers of Indonesia, suspended all aid--totalling some $100 million--pending the outcome of an Indonesian investigation into the massacre. Representative Ronald Machtley (R-R.I.) has sponsored a bill to cut off US military aid to Indonesia. A letter to President bush signed by 50 congressmen urged him to reconsider Indonesian sovereignty over East Timor. Current U.S. aid to Indonesia totals $50 million. But the support of the U.S. government for the Indonesian regime is far more valuable than that figure would indicate, as it enables Jakarta to secure $5 billion annually from American and European sources...
Later that year Texas Democrat Jim Wright stepped down as Speaker after becoming embroiled in an ethics scandal. As House majority leader, Foley was the logical successor to Wright. When some Congressmen sought to reassure themselves that Foley was "squeaky clean," they asked Russ if he had any damaging information about him. Russ told them about the FBI report...