The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congressman \Con"gress*man\, n.; pl. Congressmen. A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.
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n. (plural of congressman English)
Usage examples of "congressmen".
For a change, the general counsel noted wryly, the Pennsylvania political leader was on the job, in his office and not seeing contractors and office seekers and Congressmen at his home.
Despite the uproar in the press about the disarray in the Cabinet, despite the charges of insubordination by antiabolition Congressmen, Simon Cameron had not been publicly or privately reprimanded by the President for the inflammatory paragraph in the annual message.
Nicolay knocked and put his head in to say that a group of Congressmen, Wade included, was expected soon to be present for the signing of the Homestead Act.
A proclamation along the lines of the one in the President's pocket, he was certain, would raise the equality issue and elect governors and Congressmen who would settle the war on the South's terms.
And the congressmen and politicos from SECDEPs office who interfered with a navy investigation of that incident made you no friends.
Future war becomes a profound enigma that workaday admirals and generals and congressmen cannot penetrate.
I suspect the congressmen who agreed to vote for a huge multibillion-buck project with no public debate probably did too.
Now I'm telling you, I can't go over to the Hill and make a recommendation if five or six senators and congressmen are out to cut my balls off with a scalping knife because I let Consolidated in on the ground floor in violation of the law and DOD regulations.
She writes weekly letters to congressmen urging a national fifty-five-miles-per-hour speed limit, helmets for motorcyclists, gun control-she has never been on a motorcycle in her life and to the best of my knowledge has never even seen a real firearm.
She also said she had three senators, five congressmen, two ex-congressmen, a dozen flag officers from all services, and three high-class hookers that buy stuff from her on a regular basis.
No doubt this Captain Bligh will be questioned closely by concerned congressmen about his inability to see beyond the end of his nose.
Knight said, "Think of all the great men who have relieved themselves here-senators, congressmen, generals, tycoons, kings.
For what it's worth, two senators and three congressmen have mentioned you to me this past month.
A high-powered Washington law firm was hired to lobby congressmen into pressuring the EPA to lay off.
The Flo-Sun bill is such egregious larceny that it has been attacked by two local congressmen, Democrat Peter Deutsch and Republican E.