Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes a self-confident Congressman to rely on his own assessment of whether the mail truly reflects the sentiment of the voters he represents. And while it is a cardinal rule of Washington lobbyists never to mislead a member of Congress in face-to-face argument, no such niceties limit the distortions many of the lobbyists deliberately stimulate at the local level...
...billion version collapsed last month. Parts of the urban program have not even been sent to Congress. The National Development Bank, intended to underwrite businesses in economically depressed areas, stands no chance of being put to a floor vote before Congress recesses. The hospital cost control bill, designed to limit cost increases to 9% per year, was gutted last week...
While this strategy may pay dividends, it has its hazards. The public may find it hard to buy the idea of a presidential David locked in combat with a congressional Goliath when Congress is controlled by the President's party. There is a limit to how much public relations can accomplish. Notes Ted Van Dyk, a longtime aide to the late Hubert Humphrey: "Image flows from policies and performance. If they aren't good, no imagemaker can repair the situation...
...Western world." But the U.S., he added, has no intention of interfering in the politics of other nations. "We trust the judgment of free people in free nations to make their own determination that Communism is not in their best interest," he said. And the way to limit the growth of Communism, he emphasized, was "to make democracy work." Repeatedly, Carter urged his listeners to speak up for human rights, including the right of citizens to disagree with actions of their governments. And again, he vowed: "We consider an attack on Western Europe to be the same as an attack...
...rights, and its purpose was to urge Congressmen to extend the March 22, 1979, deadline for ratification of ERA. Without an extension, most supporters fear, the amendment will die, three states short of the 38 needed for ratification. They argue that since the Constitution sets no time limit on the ratification of amendments, the seven-year deadline set by Congress in 1972 for ERA is arbitrary and unfair...