Word: congressmen
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...piece together the elusive story of the summit, had spent the week corralling the 134 people summoned by Carter. Washington Energy Correspondent Richard Hornik spoke to economic and energy experts who had participated in the meetings, while Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil managed to track down nearly 20 Congressmen and Senators who had made the trip. Said White House Correspondent Chris Ogden, who raced to buttonhole civic leaders and senior White House aides as they arrived back in Washington: "However frustrating a sequestered summit is for reporters-and it is indeed frustrating-they seem to be the vogue for the Carter...
...does not automatically make someone a public figure. The court also rejected Senator Proxmire's argument that he was insulated from libel suits by the Constitution, which states that "for any speech or debate in either House," members of Congress "shall not be questioned in any other place." Congressmen cannot be held liable for what they say on the floor of Congress, but the court held that they can be for their newsletters and press releases...
...Senators and Congressmen listened politely and almost silently. Claimed House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It was the most attentive audience that I have seen in my years in Congress." This was a polite and partisan way of glossing over the fact that no applause greeted Carter's statements on the treaty itself. The audience did clap six times, but only when Carter condemned war and Soviet expansionism and exhorted Congress to keep U.S. defenses strong. In fact, there was no evidence that Carter's speech swayed any votes in the Senate...
Pausing between the summits in Vienna and Tokyo, Carter last week again joined the lobbying effort for the bill, and claimed to have converted 15 Congressmen. He needed every one. Despite the clear danger that U.S. relations with Panama-and the treaties themselves-could be plunged into chaos by a defeat, the Administration narrowly survived a series of votes. One proposal, requiring Panama to pay $75 million a year as part of the total transfer costs, was defeated by just three votes. Final passage approving Murphy's compromise was 224 to 202. The bill now goes to the Senate...
...cannot show that he actually delivered. "Without doubt," acknowledged Chief Justice Warren Burger, "exclusion of evidence will make prosecutions more difficult." The Justice Department argued that it would make some bribery prosecutions against Congressmen "nearly impossible." At week's end, the Government was still deciding whether or not to drop its case against Helstoski...