Word: congress
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...nice that House Speaker Tip O'Neill thinks it "sinful" that the oil companies are making profits [Nov. 5]. At least they are doing something to help keep this country running. Can Congress say the same...
...humored, calm and extraordinarily energetic. Every morning he swims 20 laps in the Ritz-Carlton's Olympic-size pool and shows up at his office by 7, where he makes his own coffee. He has long been active in Jewish affairs and is president of the World Jewish Congress...
However the fights in Michigan and Minnesota come out, a flood of additional Indian-rights claims may soon engulf courts across the country. Congress has set a deadline of April 1 for the Federal Government, which legally is the protector of the Indians, to file suits on their behalf. Pushed by this deadline, many tribal councils that have been attempting to negotiate solutions of their problems with whites may demand that Washington take the cases to court...
...Jimmy Carter, happy news on energy is about as rare as a drunk at Sunday school. But now from Congress come some welcome tidings to mix with all the bad reports out of Iran and the other oil-producing countries. The key energy recommendations made after the President's eleven-day retreat at Camp David last July should be signed into law within a few weeks. While this action will not forestall another price increase when OPEC meets next month in Caracas, it represents the most serious step taken to deal with the nation's energy woes since...
Farmer talked about the troubled conditions of a traditional liberal coalition that predates the Democratic Agenda by many years. "The alliance between blacks and Jews has been enormously useful to the civil rights movement, not just financially but through participation," said the former head of the Congress on Racial Equality. "A split between blacks and Jews serves the interest only of those who wish pain on both. I don't believe there is a rift--it's a media creation...