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Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Exterior of old Immigration building, Washington DC
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Interior of building with construction renovations in progress. Workers repairing fittings on ceiling.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Interior of new playroom at daycare center with tricycles and a big blue tube for crawling through. Center staff women talk in corner. Preschool age girl playing near toy stove.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Senator Mack Mattingly (R - Georgia) There are 7000 Senate employees. Currently they can only facilitate 38 children in this center. I think that calls into question $90,000 the first year and no telling how much as the years go on.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Senator Paula Hawkins (R - Florida) Putting aside one small little area, $90,000, if that s what it s going to cost, is a small price to pay if we just take care of 1 child and know where he is.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
3 year old girl with pigtails at Daycare hanging jacket on peg in center hallway. Children at play.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Group of women pedestrians crossing street, they are dressed for work.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Graphic of increase in childcare demand - 1970 5.6 million; 1980 7.7 million; 1990 est. 10 million.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Susan DeConcini, clinical social worker, wife of Arizona Senator, advocate of Senate Daycare Center seated in front of fireplace in home setting, I really think people are more productive when they feel that their employer cares about them personally. And we have many evidences of that in other countries. I don t need to point out article after article. And it behooves all of us in the United States - to support families is really to support America.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Senator Mack Mattingly (R - Georgia) I think the government has got a responsibility to look after needy people in our country. Now, I don t consider a child care center for Senate employees as looking after needy people in our country.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Mom who uses Senate Childcare Center seated, holding son, on steps of daycare center. It really benefits not only the parent and the children, I know it benefits the employer.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Child playing with wooden puzzle toy while mom watches. Children playing at daycare center.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
3 year old GIRL plays with toy pots/pans on toy stove
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Senator Paula Hawkins (R - Florida) (If parents are going to work, and they are, and if we re going to have a lot of single parent families, which we have), and those are facts. We have to understand and realize. It s not a myth. Then someone has to watch the children and it should be quality care. The children shouldn t suffer.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Paul Duke in studio, to introduce a commentary. Charles McDowell will tell viewers that emphasis placed on the Democratic campaign can be misleading.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Charles McDowell in front of bookshelves. There s more going on in American politics than Mondale, Hart and Jackson, more than this crazy whirlwind of sequential primaries and television bulletins and projections, to pick the Democratic nominee for President. In a quieter way, in a way that seems oddly old-fashioned and almost deliberative, the voters are beginning the process of choosing a third of the United States Senate and the entire House of Representatives. As we ve seen earlier on this program, the contest this year involves leasing members of the Capitol Hill cast, like Senator Charles Percy of Illinois. A very different kind of Republican, Senator Jesse Helms faces a tough challenge in North Carolina, so do conservative Republicans Roger Jepsen in Iowa and Gordon Humphrey in New Hampshire and the liberal Democrat Carl Levin in Michigan. Significant changes in the Senate are inevitable. The Republican leader Howard Baker of Tennessee is retiring, so is the Chairman of the Armed Service Committee, John Tower of Texas, and so in the old New Dealer, Jennings Randolph of West Virginia. Governor John D Rockefeller IV, a Democratic Rockefeller, is running to succeed Randolph. The Republicans currently control the Senate, 55 seats to 45. To take over, the Democrats would have to win 6 more seats. A net change of 6 seats is a lot seats. And the Republicans are optimistic about holding on to the Senate. The Democrats control the House by the massive margin of 100 members. And not even the dreamiest Republicans hold much hope of breaking that grip. So the battle for the Senate is crucial, a Democratic take over, the loss of the Republican legislative base, could change the momentum of the American government, whoever is elected President. The battle is worth watching, even in the shadows, as we shield our eyes from the glare of the Presidential festival.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Cokie Roberts, Paul Duke and Linda Wertheimer seated around triangular desk. Paul Duke facing camera. Duke wraps up. He and Roberts and Wertheimer never shield eyes from the Congress, will have more to report next week.
Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Closing credits over footage of Chicago St. Patrick s marchers.
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Lawmakers, March 22, 1984
Paul Duke reports on drive for School Prayer was turned down in the Senate. Senator Gary Hart (D - Colorado) crossing Capitol parking lot to enter building for the vote. He is swamped by reporters. All 100 Senators on hand to vote. Paul Duke says supporters of School Prayer vow to fight again, but opponents, are confident that it won't return as an issue this year. Lowell Weicker (R - Connecticut) seated in front of bookcase, microphones. The issue is not going to go away, but I think that the matter of social issues has crested with this particular vote.