Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...radical populism using citizens' input to attack economic and social problems. To fund the national debt, he would ban deficit spending, bill Japan and Europe for defense costs and overhaul the tax system. He would also sell government planes to curb travel costs, shorten political campaigns and pressure Congressmen to give up re-election war chests...
...Foley and his fellow Democratic leaders badly misjudged popular outrage over the cozy banking arrangements -- particularly during a recession, when making ends meet is so difficult for ordinary people. Opinion polls indicated that the public could not understand how Congressmen making $125,100 a year had so much difficulty balancing their checkbooks. Republicans seized on the issue, knowing that public contempt for Congress would be especially damaging to the Democrats, who enjoy a 102-seat majority in the House. Maverick G.O.P. presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, for example, began blasting "those check-kiting boodling Congressmen" and called for appointment...
...many Congressmen kited checks at their special bank? Almost all of them...
...rails against illegal immigrants, who he claims are draining taxpayer dollars. He wants to slash the size of the Federal Government, freeze government regulations for two years and roll back half of Congress's recent pay hike. He also wants to clamp term limits on "those check-kiting, boodling Congressmen on Capitol Hill." In one of his nastier pitches, he attacks the National Endowment for the Arts as "that upholstered playpen of the arts and crafts auxiliary of the Eastern liberal Establishment...
...profitably say. Before he began his run for President, Patrick Buchanan wrote columns suggesting that the U.S. welcome the western and Maritime provinces to statehood. Canadians shouldn't worry. Among the obstacles to such a scheme is ethnic etiquette here: we could scarcely take on several dozen white-bread Congressmen without boosting Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia to statehood...