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Democrats whooped, whistled, clapped and stamped their feet in glee as the totals went up on the House of Representatives electronic Scoreboard. "We got everything we wanted," crowed Norman Mineta of California after a long evening of whipping his Democratic colleagues into line. "This sends a clear message to the President that his policies are misguided." Republicans who supported the Administration were raging and bitter. "There will be great rejoicing in Managua and Havana tomorrow," stormed Bill Young of Florida. A G.O.P. House leader decried the vote, and the way the White House had handled the issue, as "a complete...
This spring, as the pressures started to build on Front Runner Mondale, the old signs of vacillation returned. Trade Commissioner William Brock first put the heat on by declaring that Mondale was playing a dangerous game in his sharp attacks on the Japanese. Congressman Norman Mineta, a California Democrat, complained privately to Mondale that he thought the attacks were racist...
...White House and Congress and get something done!' " The American public did not appear to be panicking; people were sober and subdued but still largely positive as they appraised their own and their country's future. "The mood isn't gloom and doom," says Norman Mineta, a freshman Democrat from Southern California. "The question always asked is how much and how long it is going to take to turn this around...
Also Martha Keys (D-Kan.), Robert Krueger (D-Tex.), Norman Mineta (D-Calif.), Gary A. Myers (R-Pa.), Larry L. Pressler (R-S.D.) and James D. Santini...
...NORMAN MINETA. Normally campaigning 18 hours a day, the popular mayor of San Jose, Calif., defeated Republican George Milias by attacking the Ford Administration's economic summit conferences and WIN buttons as merely "public relations" gimmicks. Mineta, 42, proposed lower interest rates and stronger antitrust action instead. He capitalized on his own record of holding down city property taxes by attracting new business to San Jose and landing federal funds to improve parks and the police and fire departments. Watergate was a factor, since Milias supported Ford's pardon of Nixon while Mineta protested it. Mineta is expected...