Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House Speaker George Keverian '53 (D-Everett) and the House Ways and Means Committee are drafting an $800 million tax package to be introduced later this week, State House leaders said yesterday...
...John H. Flood (D-Canton), chair of the Taxation Committee and an outspoken opponent of new taxes, said the speaker did not contact him this weekend about the package. He cautioned that Keverian should not attempt to introduce a new tax package without consulting his committee...
...show that had flopped in its last tryout, The Pay-Raise Follies enjoyed a remarkably rapid revival. There was House Speaker Tom Foley last week, a bipartisan cast gathered around him, calling earnestly for more money. Here again came consumer advocate Ralph Nader, stirring up rabid radio talk-show hosts to bash Capitol Hill for insatiable greed. George Bush, once more standing in the wings, sent his best wishes...
Credit for the smoother performance goes to Foley and Minority Leader Robert Michel. Last winter Foley watched former Speaker Jim Wright fumble painfully as he tried to sneak a raise through the House without a vote. Wright's clumsiness on the issue helped push him from power in May. Foley took office promising his rank and file he would bring the pay raise to the House floor again this year. But he was determined to do things differently...
...unassuming, amiable sort who leaves his ego at the door. He fits his approach to his subject. With the brusque, no-nonsense Iacocca, he conducted interviews in offices and conference rooms, never sharing a meal with him. With O'Neill, he took drives around Cape Cod in the former Speaker's beat-up Chrysler and listened to endless anecdotes over tuna sandwiches. "I worried that these were only a wall of stories," he says. "I came to realize that Tip's opinions were expressed through his stories." He arrived at the White House carrying a bag of Mrs. Fields chocolate...