Word: congressmen
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...afternoon of September 11, 2001, a group of Senators and Congressmen stood on the Capitol steps and sang that something-more-than-a-song. Two nights later, when Broadway turned its lights back on, the casts of "The Producers" and other shows led theatergoers in renditions of the same song...
...when Bush, 13 weeks after the disaster, is still making public calls for Americans to call their congressmen about more tax relief, Democrats clearly aren't feeling any intolerable heat from voters. And Daschle, whose position allows him to block legislation he hates but not to pass legislation he likes, looks like he's content to stall, stall, stall, until the air clears and people start watching Congress for issues again. And when they do, the Democrats will have the usual list of items to put up against Bush's tax cuts - and the usual complaints that those cuts...
...market beliefs right in the middle of a renewed push in Congress for fast-track authority and freer world trade? Because the Pension Benefit Guarantee Act already puts the government on the hook for at least $2 billion in pension costs if Big Steel goes under. Because steel-state congressmen might be persuaded to help Bush pass free-trade legislation, if their constituents are the exception to the rule. Because the steel states and the swing states - West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania -are one and the same...
Since Sept. 11, consumerism has been cast as the new patriotism. Former President Bill Clinton has urged his countrymen to "get out and shop," and Congressmen take news crews on expeditions to suburban malls, to lead by example. A Georgia group called Moms of America even declared Sept. 30 "Shop for America...
...Capitol police had announced that anthrax had been found in three more congressional offices, all in the Longworth House Office Building. Privately, Bush advisers in the Capitol were using words like "fiasco" and "failure" to describe the White House handling of the anthrax crisis. Even Republican Congressmen were shaking their heads. "I think people are much more supportive of the Administration's handling of the terrorism abroad than they are of the public-health response," said a veteran Republican lawmaker from the Midwest. "So we've got some catching...