Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Capitol Hill, Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Arlen Specter asked President Reagan to name one of the Education Department's buildings after McAuliffe so that "her sacrifice will live forever in the memory of this nation." New York's Democratic Congressman Gary Ackerman introduced legislation to designate Jan. 28 of each year as a permanent National Teacher Recognition Day. Florida's Democratic Congressman Bill Nelson, who, like Garn, had flown on a shuttle, proposed that seven of the newly discovered moons of the planet Uranus each be named for one of Challenger's victims. Colorado Republican William Armstrong went...
When asked about the State of the Union speech, Reagan replied, "There could be no speech without mentioning this. But you can't stop governing the nation because of a tragedy of this kind. So, yes, one will continue." Leaders on Capitol Hill, however, immediately sensed the incongruity of an upbeat national address at such a time. House Republican Leader Robert Michel telephoned Chief of Staff Donald Regan to urge a delay. Regan phoned House Speaker Tip O'Neill and Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. Both strongly advised a postponement, and the White House agreed. Spokesman Larry Speakes announced that...
...Capitol Hill, Speaker O'Neill recessed the House and, shaking his head, could only mutter, "Terrible thing. Terrible thing." He issued a statement expressing his awe of the space pioneers: "We salute those who died performing exploits that people my age grew up reading about in comic books...
...football captains, meeting to shake hands before the kickoff, tackled each other instead. Congressional leaders had come down to the White House last week to talk over the year ahead on Capitol Hill, when the two principal players, President Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, began sniping across the deep ideological divide between them. After the Republican President seemed to imply that some people were jobless simply because they were lazy, the Democratic Speaker exploded. He charged that Reagan's economic notions are a "bunch of baloney" that might "go over big at the country club" but not with...
...spat was a discouraging omen for a year on Capitol Hill that promises to be the fiscal equivalent of Apocalypse Now. Beginning this week, as the President delivers his delayed annual State of the Union address to Congress and submits his budget proposal for fiscal year 1987, the Government must face up to the full force of Gramm-Rudman, the automatic deficit-reduction measure enacted last year to balance the budget by 1991. Unless Congress and the White ^ House can fashion a budget that reduces the federal deficit (now estimated at more than $220 billion for fiscal 1986, which began...