Word: congresswoman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vice President by a major political party, Geraldine Ferraro emerged from the shambles of the Democrats' 1984 defeat with her political fortunes damaged but by no means destroyed. Moreover, a New York Senate seat held by a Republican was coming up for grabs in 1986, offering the former Congresswoman a chance to get back to Washington. But last week Ferraro took herself out of the Senate contest and, at least temporarily, off the political stage. At a crowded press conference held in the Queens Borough Hall, where she had appeared last year with Running Mate Walter Mondale, a subdued Ferraro...
...truth, the President likes the former Massachusetts Congresswoman who has run the monstrous HHS (current budget: $316 billion) since 1983. His hand was forced by Chief of Staff Donald Regan, who detested Heckler's idiosyncratic management style. He and others complained about her lateness at Cabinet meetings, lack of preparation and indecisiveness. The Secretary's defenders praised her successes, like reducing Medicare cost inflation, and her efforts to protect the poor and elderly against budget cutters. Heckler will take up residence in Dublin early next year. Her departure leaves Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole as the lone woman Cabinet member...
...Solo, co-founder of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and former campaign manager for Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder (D. Colorado), will conduct an analysis of the nuclear freeze campaign and its historical role in shaping policy and public support for new definitions of national security...
...reduction in taxable income. A credit of $1,000 reduces a family's tax bill by $1,000. A $1,000 deduction would lower taxes by $150, $250 or $350, depending on whether a family was in the 15%, 25% or 35% tax bracket. Barbara Kennelly, a Democratic Congresswoman from Connecticut, objected that though Reagan billed his reforms as "pro-family," the child-care, IRA and other provisions seemed tilted toward just one kind of family: the classic one in which only the husband works and the wife stays home and takes care of the children...
...issued a few days later. At week's end Robb, Jim Blanchard of Michigan, and Bruce Babbitt of Arizona were the only Governors remaining of ten whose names had appeared on preliminary lists (among the dropouts: Bob Graham of Florida, Bill Clinton of Arkansas, Richard Lamm of Colorado). Ohio Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar announced that she would have nothing to do with the council, even though it had listed her as a member. Her defection left the council with no female members, a fact noted caustically by Connecticut Congresswoman Barbara Kennelly. Said she: "Forget it, gentlemen. I refuse to take...