Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everybody's favorite agency to hate is OSHA. "It is a four-letter word," says Congressman George Hansen, an Idaho Republican. OSHA was set up to protect 50 million workers from safety hazards in their 4 million places of work. People who are self-employed are excluded from OSHA's scrutiny; so are farmers with ten or fewer workers. Safety in some kinds of employment?mining, railways, airlines, highways, atomic energy?is regulated by other federal agencies. An estimated 4,500 workers died in 1976 from accidents or disease related to their jobs (down from...
...House Republican Whip Robert Michel of Illinois exclaimed last week: "This is the biggest tax bill we've ever passed-bar anything! People out in the country are disturbed and incensed." Confided Illinois Republican Representative John Anderson: "A lot of fellows are worried about defending this bill in the fall campaigns...
...bill passed and themselves home for Christmas, Senators dropped an amendment sponsored by Delaware Republican William Roth to give parents a $250 tax credit for each son or daughter enrolled in college. Roth finally bowed to intense pressure, much to the relief of Republican Leader Howard Baker, Democratic Leader Robert Byrd and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long. Said Roth: "I fought the good fight, but there will be another...
...Check and Balance," says New York's ad miring Republican Congressman Barber Conable, suggesting further that this country has developed a sound understanding and appreciation of the counterforces needed within the Government to constrain careless or inexperienced power. "Arthur is a great politician," adds Conable. "He is a master of the pregnant pause. He knows when to clean his pipe. He can answer the most complicated questions with 'I doubt it,' and the world is thunderstruck with his wisdom. When he comes to testify before any committee, the whole committee shows up. He has the same effect...
...Kennedy. "Properly handled." commented Hoover after a bureau official had dismissed a Kennedy request as "unnecessary and undesirable." The FBI spied on the Texas judge who presided over the Jack Ruby trial, on the director of Central Intelligence and on the Warren Commission itself. The bureau engaged a friendly Republican Congressman and commission member to keep it posted on the closed-door sessions. His name-Gerald Ford. The FBI even lent Ford an agent's lockable briefcase so he could take secret documents on a skiing vacation...