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This week the pressures will mount further when Congress returns from its recess and two committees convene almost immediately for hearings related to the Lance affair. Also due this week are the final segments of the Comptroller of the Currency's report-the document that did much to bring the heat on Lance to a boil. To reduce the heat, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell declared that Lance had done nothing to deserve being "run out of Government...
...President's man," Senate I Majority Leader Robert Byrd keeps saying. "I am the Senate's man." As Congress reconvenes this week after a month's recess, President Carter may well wonder just who, if anybody, is the President's man. His friends are displaying a new balkiness, his enemies a new boldness. While mounting opposition to a President is predictable, Carter is especially dependent on a dexterous balancing of allies who have little, if anything, in common. These allies are bound to grow impatient with one another and especially with Carter. As that happens, Carter...
...problems that were worrying Jimmy Carter last week are by no means uppermost in the minds of most Americans In state after state, members of Congress who returned home for the August recess found voters preoccupied by personal, local concerns rather than headline-grabbing, life-and-death issues. Occasional gusts of passion were stirred over the Panama Canal treaty and the economy, but voters mentioned the President only rarely and Bert Lance hardly at all. TIME correspondents joined five members of Congress on their recess rounds. Their reports...
Republican Representative Arlan Stangeland, 47, has spent much of the recess visiting the farms in Minnesota's sprawling Seventh District. On the road at 7 a.m. one rainy day, he drove from his 850-acre farm to a barn more than 100 miles away for a talk with a dozen farmers and their families and a spread of cold milk, homemade blueberry cake and chocolate chip cookies. "You must be a good man," said Dairy Farmer Robert Regnell. "You brought rain." Added Lawrence Wimmer, owner of the barn: "A Republican can be a good...
...bacterium Escherichia coli K12, or E. coli for short, stirred passionate debate last year (TIME cover, April 18). Last week, after long hearings, Congress was scheduled to act on two bills seeking to control such research. The rush to adjourn forced a postponement of action until after the summer recess, but the issue remains very much alive...