Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been introduced. Says one of the sponsors, Iowa Republican Congressman William Scherle: "I don't blame the President for this. I blame those Katzenjammer Kids at the White House. They don't know the difference between an ear of corn and a bale of hay." Meanwhile Wyoming Democrat Gale McGee, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, says that he will refuse to hold hearings on or vote any money for the President's agriculture budget until REAP and all other impounded farm funds are restored. Speaking of the President's budget makers, he fumes...
...lifelong Democrat, Sinatra did not give up. In 1968 he volunteered to campaign for Hubert Humphrey, but his hopes there never materialized. Annoyed, Sinatra turned to the Republicans and campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 1970. Through Reagan's graces Sinatra came to know Spiro Agnew. Cordial friends ever since, Agnew frequently spends long weekends at Sinatra's place in Palm Springs. The Vice President honored Sinatra in January 1971 by flying to Palm Springs for the dedication of the Martin Anthony Sinatra Medical Education Center, Sinatra's monument to his father. Later, while on a good-will...
...Missouri Democrat, who had been scheduled to speak at a Harvard Law School Forum here, was 15 miles away behind a podium at Wellesley College...
REPRESENTATIVE MARTHA GRIFFITHS, 60, is hardly to be typecast as a Women's Libber, but she was far more effective than better-known lawmakers such as Shirley Chisholm and Bella Abzug in getting the women's equal rights amendment passed in 1970. Mrs. Griffiths, a ten-term Democrat from Michigan, is a tough-minded, independent legislator who has displayed little interest in congressional reform. The first woman ever to sit on Ways and Means, she is one of the most influential members in the fight to strengthen Congress's powers to control and direct Government spending...
REPRESENTATIVE WILBUR MILLS, 63, chairman of Ways and Means, is a quiet Arkansas Democrat who holds immense power...