And influential Congressmen were toying with a doctrine which could renew sectional antagonism.

Several influential congressmen had been urging an end to the U.S. military role in Lebanon.

Today one of the most influential Congressmen of the century completed a time-honored Chicago political ritual: the halfway house.

Thence, they go from one AA job to another, moving up the congressional pecking order as they work for increasingly influential congressmen.

They persuaded influential Congressmen to intervene with regulators to slow the pace of S & L closures.

Peping Cojuangco is an influential congressman, but he is considered a backroom operator, unable to articulate a national agenda.

AS legislation, the plan to overhaul the Social Security system announced last week by two influential Republican Congressmen is going nowhere.

And Mr. Solarz fears the fallout could threaten a 24-year public career that has made him one of the country's most influential Congressmen.

This has sometimes led to rail company policies of resisting cutbacks, restoring services (e.g. in the home states of influential congressmen) and avoiding staff reductions.

For several years, women's groups and influential Congressmen had called on N.I.H. to focus more research on issues like the treatment of heart disease in women.