Word: hiler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hearing last summer on the problems at the Environmental Protection Agency, Congressman John Hiler, an Indiana Republican, angrily accused the panel's Democrats of conducting a political witch hunt. "We are unfortunately doomed to have to undergo what has been an extraordinarily partisan hearing," he said. On reviewing the transcript of the hearing last month, Hiler discovered that his remark had been altered to read: "We are unfortunately doomed?" And there, astonishingly, the sentence ended. This and other surprising examples of phantom fiddling with the official record of House committee hearings had the effect of making Republicans look worse...
...Referring to the Democrats' attendance at a hearing, Indiana's John Hiler said, "The majority had about one or two people here." The record changes "majority" to "minority," making it seem that he was criticizing the Republicans...
...Hiler criticized the work of the Democratic staff, saying of certain witnesses, "We didn't know they were going to be here until twelve hours ago." The complaint vanished from the final version...
...Republican Governor James Thompson of Illinois barely an hour after the polls closed; ABC and CBS prudently held off all night, and the race was not settled for Thompson until week's end. In at least one contest, all three networks were wrong: they labeled Representative John Hiler, an Indiana Republican, the loser of a seat he ended up keeping...
...spotting a Democratic trend. For Republicans, he said, "it certainly doesn't look good. No way to make it look good." White House Correspondent Lesley Stahl shared his view. Soon after 7 p.m. E.S.T., she announced flatly, "It is a Democratic year." After Reporter Bruce Morton miscalled Hiler's defeat, he suggested that Democrats could win "40 or 50 seats" in the House...