Word: congressmen
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...controversial super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff create a popular Washington restaurant just to make friends and influence people? Signatures, his gourmet trattoria on Pennsylvania Avenue, was renowned as a high-class feeding trough for politicians. Indeed, as Capitol Hill circulates a purported comp list from Signatures that includes eight Congressmen, TIME has obtained an e-mail showing that Abramoff offered a complimentary meal to a longtime ally who, like him, is in a lot of ethical hot water these days. His message, headed "Tom and Christine DeLay" and addressed to restaurant staff, is dated May 2, 2002, when Tom was House...
McCallum, the congressmen write, is believed to be responsible for the government’s decision to cut its demand for penalties against the tobacco industry in a related case from $130 billion to $10 billion, a move that infuriated antismoking activists and members of Congress...
...Glenn A. Fine ’79 wrote in a June 13 statement responding to an earlier letter from Waxman and Meehan that the Office of Professional Responsibility “intends to initiate an investigation” into the claims of political interference in the case. The two congressmen want an inquiry into Bazerman’s statements to be added to that investigation...
...every desire a yearning for forgiveness and peace, what shall be done to them in high places who guided the assassin's knife?" The crowd began to chant, "Hang them! Hang them!" The assassination, Northern leaders saw, had a great political value. "His death," noted a caucus of Republican Congressmen, "is a godsend to our cause...
...evidence mounted that both the aircraft and its crew had long associations with the CIA, some Congressmen grew dubious about Administration professions of ignorance. Said Minnesota Republican David Durenberger, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: "I assume somebody in the United States Government knows something about this, and the sooner they speak up the better." Hasenfus' capture came only a week before final passage of $100 million in military and economic aid for the contras is slated by Congress...