Word: stenholm
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...favored by the White House, would have limited earned income tax credits for child care to a mere $200 to $300 a year; it was defeated by a vote of 285 to 140. The White House then tried to rally support for a compromise devised by Texas Democrat Charles Stenholm, which would have prohibited the Government from setting standards for child-care centers and personnel. It went down, 230 to 195. The bill's supporters did agree to one conservative demand, deleting a ban on federal funds for church-run centers, which now provide about one-third of all child...
...House debated the Democratic plan, Rep. Charles Stenholm, (D-Tex.) charged that it would have placed control of a $14 million fund to aid children who are victims of the civil war in the hands of the leftist Nicaraguan government, prompting an angry response from House Speaker Jim Wright...
...days before his TV address, Reagan called Texas Democrat Charles Stenholm into the Oval Office to ask for his support. Stenholm agreed and pointed out that one way the President could win some Southern Democrats would be to stop opposing a peanut-crop allotment scheme. Taking his advice, Reagan later assured the ten-man Georgia delegation that the matter was not peanuts to him. When former President (and sometime Peanut Farmer) Jimmy Carter called Congressman Bo Ginn, it was too late. Carter was Ginn's 405th caller that day -and only the fifth to support the Democratic bill. Ginn...
...balanced budget. But they make no attempt to work out a unified position, and their organization is the loosest on Capitol Hill: the forum has no chairman, no staff, no offices, not even any set schedule for meeting. When a member wants a meeting, he notifies Charles Stenholm, a cotton farmer from Texas who has been designated "coordinator." At the meetings, members simply talk and break up without taking any nose counts...
...both parties. Republicans are trying to forge alliances with them while simultaneously threatening an all-out effort to bag many of their seats in 1982. As for Democratic leaders, they have been put on notice that the price of C.D.F. support is a much more conservative stance. Says Stenholm: "We need to change the direction of our party, or we will soon be a minority in the House...