Word: republicanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hill country and substituting television blitzes and phone banks for local organizations. He spent more than $1 million of his own money on the campaign. Glamour and greenbacks proved a winning combination, giving Brown 29% of the vote; Runner-Up Sloan received 24%. But former Governor Louie Nunn, the Republican nominee, is a street-fighter who will give Brown a tough race. His first salvo was to call his opponent "a snake-oil salesman...
Like his mentor L.B.J., Jones is more interested in advancing by compromise than confrontation. After whining a seat in Congress from an affluent and largely Republican district of Tulsa in 1972, he was assigned to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee in 1974. When the tax-cut bill bogged down in the committee last summer, Chairman Al Ullman asked Jones to see if he could find a compromise. Jones pieced together a combination of general tax reductions and capital-gains cuts that won the committee's endorsement. When the legislation came to the House floor...
Says he: "There are 60 conservative Democrats who are mad about economic policies and could be persuaded to protest just about any liberal policy. Add them to the Republican votes and you have a majority. But that's not my interest...
...increase to cover their rising costs, but for the first time in memory Congress does not seem so ready to swallow their sweet talk. With voters fuming over sky-high food prices, many Congressmen would just as soon see the bill never come to a vote. Says Massachusetts Republican Margaret Heckler, a member of the House Agriculture Committee: "Inflation is the nation's No. 1 enemy, and things just cannot stay the same for easy subsidies. The sugar bill represents the legislative process at its worst...
...tighten the secrecy of medical records, Congress is now considering a number of bills, including one introduced by Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York, another by Democratic Representative Richardson Preyer of North Carolina, and a third on behalf of the White House. All three measures cover mainly institutional records, not those kept by doctors in their private offices. Also, they would continue to allow release of information for such worthy scientific purposes as inquiries into the effectiveness of a particular drug on the course of a disease. But they would prohibit the kind of blanket, open-ended authorizations that...