Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some Congressmen say the time has come for the House to scrap the patronage system and hire a professional administrator to oversee its operations. Says Kansas Democrat Dan Glickman: "The House has grown . . . into a 13,000- employee, $875 billion-a-year operation, but it's managed the same way it was 100 years...
...uses Bushspeak a la Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey to lambaste the President for breaking his tax pledge and begs Bush to debate him "at the country club of his choice." His regular stump speech extolling isolationism, protectionism and fiscal stinginess is seasoned with attacks on "boodling" Congressmen, upholstered think tanks cooking up cockeyed new programs, and softheaded Trilateralists who would bail out Chinese communist Deng Xiaoping, the "85-year-old chain-smoking communist dwarf" but let Macy's go into Chapter...
Meanwhile some Congressmen have readied a freedom-of-choice bill that would attempt to compel states to keep abortion legal and uniformly available. Any such law would be subject to challenge as an unconstitutional infringement on states' rights. But it would give Democrats the advantage of forcing Bush to cast a highly visible anti-choice veto in the midst of his re-election campaign...
...said it would be wrong to vote "to undermine the U.N. resolution" allowing the use of force; he did not trumpet that opinion because he was a Governor, not a member of Congress, and "I didn't want to give any extra grief to my two Senators and my Congressmen, who had a tough vote to cast"; looking back, though, it seems clear that "sanctions would not have worked to get Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait...
...Force, which spends millions on its fleet of 43 planes for the VIPs, relishes the chance to curry favor with its sources of money and influence, including Congressmen and Senators, whose taste for junketeering is legendary. The White House advance teams, the Secret Service -- which deploys hundreds of agents on some presidential trips -- are made up of young men and women who are thrilled by the adventure. Concocted and hyped crowds roar approval. Add it all up, and a President gets the feeling he rides with the gods. It is an illusion...