Word: republicans
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William Dreier usually votes Democratic but he says he wouldn't be indisposed to vote Republican if the circumstances demanded it. "I'm aware that most politics today is personalities. I don't think that's good...
Part of the 95th's problem is that it breezed into Washington with unrealistically high expectations?a display of naivete not confined to Capitol Hill. After eight quarrelsome years of Republican Presidents and Democratic majorities in Congress, there were high hopes of a new spirit of harmony between the White House and the Congress. Instead, Carter and the legislators were jaw to jaw from the very outset...
...Neill calls it "the greatest of any elected President for his first year in office since 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt was President." But O'Neill is really passing judgment on his own work. John Rhodes, the House Republican leader, says that from a G.O.P. perspective the House's performance rates "about three on a scale of one to ten." But he concedes that from the Democrats' point of view, "I'd have to give them a seven or eight." Overall, Rhodes' seven or eight seems closer to the mark than his partisan three...
...likes increases in tax rates," admitted Republican Representative William Ketchum of California. "But it is time that Congress quit fooling people. There is no free lunch...
...legislation also had its share of defenders. Said New York Republican Senator Jacob Javits: "This bill represents the very least we can do for those workers who cannot protect themselves and their families from the erosion in their living standards caused by inflation." It is probably premature to say for sure whether organized labor's victory on minimum wage presages a resurgence of union influence in Congress. But one thing is certain. The increasingly powerful business lobby is not likely to let itself be so obviously outmaneuvered in any future congressional confrontation...