Word: republicans
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...ever the Republicans had a chance I to make political capital," says California Pollster Mervin Field, "it is now." With the latest polls showing that only 30% of the voters approve of Jimmy Carter's performance in office, the Republicans might be expected to exploit such traditional issues as high taxes and Government spending as a means of winning the coming congressional elections. Yet all across the country, Democrats are displaying considerable strength at the midsummer point in congressional races. Indeed a recent Gallup poll found that Americans by 59% to 41% planned to vote for Democratic congressional candidates...
...keep this fall's congressional elections from being interpreted as a Republican defeat, G.O.P. National Chairman William Brock is going to great lengths to point out his party's modest expectations. Republicans, he says, are concentrating their money and energy on local races, where they forecast a net gain of six governorships and 250 seats in the state legislatures. He adds: "What we're trying to do is restore our party's base so we can go into 1980 with lots of enthusiasm and momentum. "In other words: wait till next time...
...August 4, Freshman Republican John Chafee of Rhode Island called on his Senate colleagues to vote down any further appropriations for the project. Said he: "That Mussolini-style building is an outrage." The Senate defeated his proposal by a vote of 49 to 25. Aside from the attractions of extravagance and the power of bureaucratic inertia, supporters of the building argued that it was required because of the threefold increase in the Senate staff since the last Senate offices were constructed 20 years ago. This increase, they said, was due largely to the Senate's efforts to build...
...While Republicans grinned and snickered, Good Soldier O'Neill defended the White House bill as another step toward an egalitarian America, but he did not have his heart in his speech. He actually sounded as though he were apologizing for the President, and he pointedly told the White House that he would not "twist any wrists" on behalf of the bill. Referring to the fact that Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and other Administration officials were still hotly lobbying for the measure even as the bells summoned Congressmen to their seats, Illinois Republican John Anderson castigated the "late-blooming...
...vote was also a setback for New York Republican Representative Jack Kemp, 43, who has staked his promising career on the issue of a sweeping 33% reduction in federal personal income taxes over a three-year period. Kemp argues that the cut would be such a spur to the nation's production that the Federal Government would soon recover much of the revenues lost by the cut -a prospect that critics sneeringly refer to as a "free lunch." Under Kemp's prodding, many G.O.P. candidates are seizing on the issue; this fall the Republican National Committee plans...