Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heap praise on the budget director. In a remarkable turnaround from the deep concern that many of them had expressed only three days earlier about Lance's business affairs, they lobbed soft questions at him, asked even gentler follow-ups, and accepted his answers at face value. Ohio Democrat John Glenn wondered whether "Lance's assets include his closeness to President Carter." Continued Glenn: "None of us can answer that. I will skip that one." So it went for two hours and ten minutes, with Lance beaming broadly. Finally, Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles declared that the committee...
...Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism." That is a favorite aphorism of Congressman Claude Pepper, the fiery Floridian who, at 76, is as oratorically opulent as he was four decades ago as a radical New Deal Senator. Democrat Pepper's latest crusade, gingered up by senior citizens' groups like the Gray Panthers, is aimed at halting what he views as discrimination because of age. His argument, delivered in his trademark soapbox-preacher style: "Mandatory retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talent, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system...
...people over 65. Pepper has pushed through the House Education and Labor Committee a bill that would bar forced retirement in the private sector until age 70 and eliminate the mandatory retirement at that age that now applies to all federal employees. A Senate subcommittee headed by New Jersey Democrat Harrison A. Williams is writing similar legislation. President Carter says he supports the retire-ment-at-70 cause in principle, and the enactment of some form of the Pepper bill this year seems almost certain...
...Georgia stock (TIME, July 25), and it had seemed assured that the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee would grant the delay. But last week, after newspapers covered Lance with the appearance of new improprieties, the committee stalled and invited him to testify this week. That forced Lance, as Tennessee Democrat James Sasser put it, "to twist in the wind for a few more days...
During the last lap of his run for the presidency, Jimmy Carter was delighted to accept the belated support of organized labor. Once in the Oval Office, however, the conservative Georgia Democrat spent much time soothing largely Republican businessmen, while seeming to slight all sorts of cherished labor goals. Reflecting on Carter's lack of concern for such labor pets as common situs picketing, which would have enabled a single union to shut down a construction site, AFL-CIO President George Meany groused that Carter's record on labor legislation was "a lot of talking but very little...