Word: foley
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Thomas Stephen Foley's succession to the chair of the Agriculture Committee represented a particular forking in the pathway of his career. As a protége of Senator Henry Jackson, and a popular Washington Congressman, he might have been tempted to run for the Senate if Jackson resigned his seat to campaign for the presidency. Not now: the revolution in the House against the seniority system has handed him, at age 45, an opportunity to block proposed rises in the cost of food stamps and to urge increased production of milk and cotton while keeping a floor under...
...Foley opposed his predecessor, Bob Poage, over a 1970 farm bill rule denying food stamps to families if any member over 18 refused work. "I don't want to feed bums," he argued, "but neither do I think we should visit the sins of the parents upon the children...
Born in Spokane, Foley received his law degree from the University of Washington in 1957 and taught law briefly at Gonzaga University. Before running for Congress himself in 1964, he worked on the staff of "Scoop" Jackson's Senate Interior Committee. Although he backed military-spending projects like the ABM, Foley was chairman of the liberal Democratic Study Group. Unlike the bellow-voiced, unpopular Poage, Foley is quiet, almost diffident; he has a preference for Mozart and Bach...
...some doubt. Hays seemed most likely to survive, since his committee controls travel expenses for the members, and he dangled promises of more travel at an increased $45 per day. To replace Hebert, the steering group named Melvin Price of Illinois; to succeed Poage, it selected Thomas Foley of Washington. But when it meets again this week the caucus will have the right, for the first time in the procedures, to propose other choices of its own devising...
...Builders wanted lower interest rates and more mortgage money. Union leaders called for higher wages and more federal spending to generate jobs. "I've heard a great deal about belt tightening, but the trouble is, everybody wants to tighten someone else's belt," cracks Congressman Thomas S. Foley, a Democrat from Washington State...