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Traveling foul: the Democrats' national pastime.(CONGRESS)
JUST days after the GOP announced a "lobbying reform" package meant to mitigate political damage from the Jack Abramoff scandal, the Democrats held a grandstanding press conference at the Library of Congress to announce their own lobbying-reform ideas. Even as Democrats accused the Republicans of not going far enough, their own plan came up short in one widely debated area. While the Republican plan would ban all privately funded travel for congressmen and congressional staff--those "fact-finding missions" to any destination where the facts can be gathered lazily near a golf course or a beach--the Democrats' plan would leave a loophole open for nonprofits to sponsor ...
- Puerto Rico: The Question of Statehood
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post August 28, 1987 700+ words
...to Congress San Juan, Puerto Rico I take exception to The...politicians are "toying with Puerto Rico." On June 30, I introduced...R. 2849) with two Democrats and one other Republican...providing for a referendum in Puerto Rico on the question of statehood...
- BIG REDUCTION EXPECTED IN PUERTO RICO'S TAX BREAKS
- Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) ADAM PIORE, Washington Correspondent July 9, 1996 700+ words
...adds Peter Holmes of The Puerto Rico USA Foundation, which...investment has brought Puerto Rico up by its bootstraps...both Republicans and Democrats have taken swings at...corporate welfare. Even Puerto Rico's representative in...
- Puerto Rico's status.(LETTERS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 3, 2006 700+ words
...million U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico, a population close to that...your assertion that as a state Puerto Rico would send only Democrats to Congress. What does not amuse me is that Americans from Puerto Rico are serving in Afghanistan...
- Puerto Rico pays more than states to lobby in D.C. Five-year tab nears $20...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times January 20, 2004 700+ words
...for the admission of Puerto Rico as the 51st state of...referendum was held in Puerto Rico in December 1998, the...contributions went to Democrats, compared with 30 percent...Popular came to power in Puerto Rico. Sila Maria Calderon...
- Resolving Puerto Rico's status problem seems locked in chicken-and-egg bind.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Hemlock, Doreen December 21, 1998 700+ words
...commonwealth has allowed Puerto Rico to become the biggest...Washington would accept Puerto Rico as a state. Many members...have voiced objections: Puerto Rico has more population than...the island would elect Democrats, a prospect not heartening...
- Puerto Rico votes today on its status.(A)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Scully, Sean December 13, 1998 700+ words
...Once the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico comes in as a state...language of the state of Puerto Rico, Mr. Ortiz said. Since...languages. All sides in Puerto Rico have waged a furious...against it in March. Most Democrats supported the idea...
- Puerto Rico's Political Status
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post April 12, 1989 700+ words
...claims that as a state Puerto Rico would have "two liberal...based on population Puerto Rico would have two senators...congressmen, no doubt Democrats. Finally, the article...was created in 1952, Puerto Rico has had a "greater dependence...
- AS YOU WERE SAYING . . . Puerto Rico now ready for statehood.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Munoz, Rafael A. September 20, 1997 700+ words
...House leadership to have Puerto Rico become our 51st state...The United States/ Puerto Rico Political Status Act - H.R. 856) are Democrats, including three from...behalf of the people of Puerto Rico whose colonial relationship...
Source: HighBeam Research, Traveling foul: the Democrats' national pastime.(CONGRESS)