Word: congressmen
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...letter from 16 of them, including Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich, asked Bank Board ex-chairman Edwin Gray for "internal memoranda" about the board's decisions on certain S&L matters that could have helped Keating. Gray refused the request and charged last week that the Congressmen had been "duped and used" by the indicted financier...
There was a time when Congressmen and Senators boasted that their experience in Washington was a reason to send them back for another term. That was before public disgust with congressional pay hikes, the savings-and-loan debacle and the government's inability to devise an acceptable deficit-reduction plan erupted into a throw-the-bums-out mood so intense that many lawmakers are afraid to face their constituents. As a result, incumbents from both parties are finding that the very tenure in office that used to be a political asset can now be a liability. They are scrambling...
...question is perhaps best left to psychiatrists, but last week Congressmen, Senators, White House aides and millions of Americans were trying to answer it. How could George Bush -- the World War II bomber pilot, the Commander in Chief who invaded Panama and ousted its dictator, the leader who dispatched more than 200,000 U.S. troops to the Persian Gulf and ably assembled an international alliance to confront Saddam Hussein -- be so wishy- washy...
...actual tally began, it appeared that the ayes were winning. But many Democrats delayed casting their votes, watching the electronic scoreboard. They soon realized that Republicans were defecting en masse. All eight G.O.P. Congressmen seeking elevation to the Senate this November voted no. At that point, scores of undecided Democrats rushed into the negative column. Of the 25 Democratic incumbents facing stiff challenges this year, none supported the deal. Eight of the 13 chairmen of the appropriations subcommittees, who usually have great power in shaping the details of spending plans, deserted the Democratic leadership. The final tally, shortly after...
...thousands of American babies are born premature and underweight, in a country torn by neither war nor famine. The U.S. is one of only four countries -- with Iran, Iraq and Bangladesh -- that still execute juvenile offenders. And nearly 1 in 4 American children under age six lives in poverty. Congressmen wrestling with budget cuts, policymakers musing about peace dividends, voters weighing their options -- all would do well to wonder what sort of legacy they will be leaving to a generation of children whose needs have been so widely ignored. And those needs go far beyond vigils and poignant speeches...