Word: congressmen
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...Service agents. Hearing from Rep. John Conyers that no member of Congress had read the complete Patriot Act before voting for it, he hires a Mister Softee truck and patrols downtown D.C. reading the act to members of Congress over a loudspeaker. Toward the end, he tries to get Congressmen to enlist their sons in the military. Surprise: no volunteers...
...visiting students did receive responses from several previously- Congressmen, and despite a surprising confrontation with four top White officials, most Congressional offices were cool towards Project Washington and its statements...
Several New York Congressmen, such as Robert W. Kastenmeier, were more sympathetic towards the intellectual goals of the drive. Kastenmeier, though, hammered at the "ineffectiveness of picketing and notionalism for its own sake...
While only a few specially prepared students participated in the State Department and White House meetings, several hundred of the demonstrators ascended Capitol Hill to keep appointments with more than 300 Congressmen and their aides. Despite the fact that many students were encouraged by their visits, a great many of the meetings deteriorated into interviews rather than discussions, with the students finding the political atmosphere for their proposals nearly as chilly as the snowy Washington weather...
Still, a Justice Department probe may be in the offing, and it won't be the only one aimed at Republicans. The FBI is investigating whether Michigan Republican Representative Nick Smith was offered a bribe to support the Medicare reform bill. Smith alleged in November that unnamed G.O.P. Congressmen offered to donate $100,000 to his son's campaign for the House if he backed the bill. (He now says he got only a vague offer of "significant financial support...