Example sentences of "member [prep] congress " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the afternoon he will go to Capitol Hill for discussions with members of Congress . |
| 2 | The Baker explanation was dismissed by some members of Congress as a lame attempt to deflect complaints , from both right and left , that the administration bungled a chance to remove General Noriega . |
| 3 | Members of Congress and administration officials ought , in theory , to be wringing their hands this week ; most are shrugging their shoulders . |
| 4 | But some senior members of Congress in both parties remain concerned by recent developments in US budget politics . |
| 5 | During her Washington visit , Mrs Chamorro attended the launch of a Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Nicaragua , sponsored by several members of Congress . |
| 6 | But rightwing members of Congress have never reconciled themselves to the return of the canal to the Panamanians . |
| 7 | On January 3rd , under pressure from members of Congress , Mr Bush offered a new idea : a meeting between Mr Baker and Mr Aziz , in Switzerland , between January 7th and January 9th . |
| 8 | The American one has to decide how many members of Congress each state should have . |
| 9 | Elected last March only days after M-19 laid down its arms , the 312 members of Congress include just one representative of the movement . |
| 10 | The aircraft , which will be known as the C-20H in military service , will be delivered in October 1993 and will be based at Andrews AFB near Washington , D.C. for use by the vice-president , joint chiefs of staff and members of Congress . |
| 11 | Latinamerica Press has reported that nearly 200 of the 550 members of Congress and the Senate are owners of or have ties to some media outlet . |
| 12 | Miami previously had no black members of Congress ; now it has two . |
| 13 | The case for the prosecution was made by such organisations of the Christian right as the Reverend Donald Wildmon 's American Family Association , by such members of Congress as Senator Jesse Helms , and by Republican fund-raisers and candidates . |
| 14 | Although the Forest Service may offer — and withdraw — timber sales without consulting anyone , it gets close attention from members of Congress with forests in their constituencies . |
| 15 | When members of Congress returned to Washington , not only did the Senate Republicans stand firm a third time , but conservative and moderate Democrats were emboldened to seek further cuts in spending , together with modifications to Mr Clinton 's energy tax . |
| 16 | Individualism among today 's members of congress has also been heightened by electoral considerations . |
| 17 | Members of congress , by contrast , enjoy great power without responsibility ; it is possible for them to wallow in carping criticism and to engage in other negative tactics free from the anxiety of ever having to shoulder the responsibility for government — a burden that the president can not escape . |
| 18 | In such a situation members of congress may also be prepared to forego their usual concern with constitutional niceties in the interest of allowing the president to cope with an international or domestic crisis . |
| 19 | Members of congress , senior bureaucrats and other leaders share power with the president ; they do not hold their jobs at his discretion and the fulfilment of their career objectives does not lie in his hands alone . |
| 20 | Patronage in the form of federal jobs for the friends and followers of members of congress is useful for bargaining purposes . |
| 21 | Members of congress are , in any event , likely to be in awe of the president ; a direct telephone call from him will carry special weight as Tip O'Neill reports : ‘ The men and women in Congress love nothing better than to hear from the head guy . |
| 22 | Members of Congress and senior administrators are moved by considerations other than the carrots and sticks available to a chief executive . |
| 23 | The staff in congressional support agencies working for members of congress grew from approximately 1,514 in 1965 to approximately 2790 in 1979 . |
| 24 | Consequently , parties have little by way of financial sanctions to bring against undisciplined members of congress . |
| 25 | Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework . |
| 26 | Incumbent members of Congress have always been difficult to defeat and too much may have been made of the advantages of incumbency in the modern legislature . |
| 27 | President Ford threw himself into an extensive programme of consultation with members of congress on behalf of his new policy , but his performance in this acid test of presidential leadership was unimpressive . |
| 28 | However , while Johnson 's coat-tails had carried in a sizeable number of members of congress this was not true of Carter who , in fact , ran behind no less than 270 successful Democratic candidates for the House . |
| 29 | Presidential support scores are compiled by calculating the number of times members of Congress vote in a way preferred by the president , even though he may not have proposed the measure in question . |
| 30 | At the beginning there was the ritual flurry of meetings and consultations with members of Congress , but these soon tapered off and there was , in any case , little real meeting of minds . |