Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON Speaker of the House Jim Wright caved in yesterday to opponents of a 51 percent congressional pay raise, conceding "the majority has spoken" in demanding a vote that will likely keep senators and representatives from getting any increase...
...Wright had planned to let the raise take effect tomorrow, then have the House vote the next day to scale it back to 30 percent...
...leading opponent of the raise, consumer advocate Ralph Nader, said Wright's capitulation showed he had realized "that the power of the people is greater than the power of his tyranny in [trying to] close down the House of Representatives until the members got their salary increase...
...Wright said he has been in touch with Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Maine) on a common approach that would be needed to send legislation rescinding the raise to Bush...
...majority has spoken, and the majority will speak emphatically," Wright said afterwords...