Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
Lawmakers, Congress gearing up for 1982 elections - January 14, 1982
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
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Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
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Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
Paul Duke, Cokie Roberts, Linda Wertheimer. On program - Congress gearing up for 1982 elections and report on auto industry unemployment.
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
Cokie Roberts intro report on Congressional activities in home districts during winter recess. District work period
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
Sunset over small inlet of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland with many sea birds. Fishing boats on harbor.
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
House of Representative Roy Dyson (D - Maryland). Dyson in a meeting in his kitchen. Over coffee he gives certificates to two retired workers in local courthouse. Dyson leaving house, v.o. discusses diversity of interests in his district.
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
Maryland farm house.
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
CU of Main Street sign. Traffic on a small town main street.
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
Chesapeake Bay, Maryland coast. Fishing boats in harbor.
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
Representative Roy Dyson (D - Maryland) talking with older men in a hardware store. He is shaking hands on the campaign trail.
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
Representative Roy Dyson (D - Maryland) speaking on voting history and Reaganomics. (I don t think it would have made any difference which way) I voted on any issue. I believe as a member of Congress, you have to be prepared to go out and defend your position. If I voted with Tip O Neill in some of those instances, I would have had to go out and explain to people, This is why I this way. In the case with, I believe, in the case with supporting the President on some of the budget cuts and on the tax cut, it was basically in the favor of the majority of the people in the first Congressional district. There was this sense that we ought to give the President a chance.
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
Maryland Rotary Club luncheon. Older men in sport coats and Representative Roy Dyson (D - Maryland) eating. Dyson speaking to Rotarians, As you know I serve on the Armed Services Committee. Let me tell you a bit about what I do there. We approve or disapprove every expenditure of money over about $400,000 for every facility in the country. And of course, that s very important here in the first district. And it s very important because if they want to relocate Patuxent Naval base, they at least have to get an okay of the majority of the members of that committee, which they won t get.
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
Exterior Harford County office building, Harford, Maryland. Tom Berenger, Harford County Executive seated with Representative Roy Dyson (D - Maryland) in a press conference. As you know, Roy Dyson is here and he will also be a tremendous assistance to this county, as he is already been as a Congressman.
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
POV of car driving on a rural road. Camera is in the backseat looking through the front window, back of driver s head is visible. Driver is Representative Roy Dyson (D - Maryland). Shot of driver from the passenger seat.
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
POV from car of rural landscape, farm house.
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
Exterior of office of Representative Roy Dyson (D - Maryland). Through window men seated at a conference. Dyson meeting with one of his constituents who is having trouble collecting his disability benefits.
Lawmakers - January 14, 1982
Representative Roy Dyson (D - Maryland) There is a tremendous joy in helping people. Believe me, this government is huge - and you can imagine, I get frustrated with it sometimes. What about the guy down the road here, whether it s his workman s compensation case or whether it s his mother-in-law can t get Social Security check or what it is? When those letters come in, or in my case, I see those people because I m home every night, my district is so close to Washington, and they say Thank you for helping. And almost in a sense you beat the government too.