Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Congressmen and the President too concerned with being re-elected rather than taking on tough problems...
...election season, and more and more American politicians are making "fact-finding trips" to Moscow, hoping to bring home an 8-by-10 glossy of their huddle with Boris Yeltsin. With as many as a dozen Congressmen showing up every week, Yeltsin and his staff have asked American Ambassador BOB STRAUSS to help slow the tide. The Russians say they're overwhelmed with too many urgent problems to spend so much time chewing the fat in what amounts to photo ops for the Yanks...
...other lawmakers were willing to echo Early's intemperate remarks -- at least not publicly. But there is little doubt that many Democratic Congressmen blame Foley for the continuing political mess that may have cost several incumbents their jobs in primaries last week. One of the defeated lawmakers, five-term Chicago Congressman Charles Hayes, wrote 716 bad checks. Many more may be sent packing in November: a Washington Post/ABC News poll published last week indicated that 79% of Americans are unlikely to vote for Representatives who repeatedly wrote bad checks...
...Justice Department announced an independent review of check-kiting practices on the Hill. Adding to the embarrassment, at least three Democrats -- Charles Wilson of Texas, former Congressmen Jim Bates of California and Doug Walgren of Pennsylvania -- used House bank checks to lend money to their election campaigns...
...television signal will leave the Bethesda, Md., TV tower of WETA, a PBS affiliate, fly across downtown Washington, strike an antenna on the roof of the Capitol building and zip down a cable into the Thomas P. O'Neill Room two floors below. There, before an audience of Senators, Congressmen and assorted commissioners, magician Harry Blackstone Jr. will draw back a black cloth and reveal the first image ever to be broadcast in digital high-definition television: a razor-sharp picture of a fluttering American flag...