Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I started in sociology at Hebrew University, it was light years from today," Eliav declares. "A Congressman who learned economics 20 years ago is hopelessly out of date today." But catching up on new ideas is only one of the reasons which prompted Eliav to come to Harvard...
Finally, Congress has less reason than ever to give the President what he wants because his support continues to crumble. During the recess, Arizona Congressman Morris Udall won applause whenever he told constituents that Carter should be given the benefit of the doubt, but he found that the same audiences favored Ted Kennedy over Carter by two to one. Democratic Congressman Dave Obey discovered that most of his Wisconsin constituents doubted that Carter would be reelected, though many of them wished he could be. Said Obey: "The people have not decided whether Carter is being worked over as a good...
More important, Virginia Congressman Herbert Harris held hearings last week on his bill, cheered on the Hill, that would limit agencies to spending no more than 20% of their annual budgets in the last two months of the year. Such a restriction was imposed on the Department of Defense years...
That is not sufficient for New York Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal, chairman of a Government operations subcommittee, who believes the IRS report underestimated the size of the underground economy by $100 billion to $200 billion. He wants tougher auditing of tax returns, believing that only "fear" will force more people to declare their full income. At present, the IRS audits only 1.8 million individual returns a year, or about 2% of the total. Says the angry Congressman: "The people paying their taxes are being forced to subsidize the rest...
Gerald Ford once tried to recruit David McLaughlin. But the Grand Rapids high school football hero turned down the local Congressman's come-on for the University of Michigan; instead McLaughlin yearned for Dartmouth. There he set pass-catching records that stood for more than 20 years, made All-Ivy and Phi Bete and spurned a Philadelphia Eagles offer in order to go to graduate business school. Now, at 47, rangy Dave McLaughlin invests a quarter of his time as chairman of his college's board of trustees and the rest as chief executive of Minneapolis' Toro...