Word: congresswomen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down and fed up. "I'm tired of being diddled," sputtered Manhattan's Democratic Congressman Edward Koch; "Ford has bled us to death." New York State University students held a rally at the U.S. Capitol to drum up support for aid to the city; New York Congresswomen Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm and Elizabeth Holtzman lent their voices to the cause. The New York Daily News, a longtime supporter of fiscal conservatism, berated Ford for "tantalizing us in a cold-blooded game of cat and mouse." Said a top G.O.P. congressional leader: "Ford was right at the start...
...failure." Other women took a more positive view. Representative Bella Abzug of New York said that while the conference was perhaps "intended as a sop, we did talk about issues, and I believe deeply that we accomplished something." She was so inspired, in fact, that she and two other Congresswomen are sponsoring legislation for a follow-up national conference on women to be held next year in the U.S.-a feminist firecracker of sorts to commemorate the Bicentennial...
...logistics are difficult for most Congresswomen's families. Asked how his family copes with two homes, three children and four dogs, John Heckler says: "Her name is Rachel." The airlines are almost as crucial as a good housekeeper. "We should own 50% of Northwest Airlines," says Hicks Griffiths, whose wife commutes to Michigan for long weekends. First-Term Congresswoman Yvonne Burke, 41, spends so much time commuting to Los Angeles, where her husband William is a health-care consultant, that daughter Autumn had logged 30,000 miles by the time she was four months...
...Congressmen and Congresswomen dispelled any fears of their Capitol Hill colleagues that they might disgrace the national legislature in this first televised debate and decision of a congressional committee. The tone of solemnity and historic significance was established by the chairman...
...become Congressmen and Congresswomen," noted Missouri Democrat William Hungate, "we took the same oath to uphold the Constitution which Richard M. Nixon took. If we are to be faithful to our oaths, we must find him faithless in his." Iowa Democrat Edward Mezvinsky expressed a similar thought, arguing that Nixon should be brought "to account for the gross abuse of office," and that "we must all ask ourselves, if we do not, who will...