HOUSE CLEANING: Despite the 20-year difference in...

HOUSE CLEANING: Despite the 20-year difference in the time they have served as congressmen, above, Republicans Carlos Moorhead (Glendale) and Howard (Buck) McKeon (Santa Clarita) are both expected to vote for future 12-year term limits in the House of Representatives today (A1). . . . “I think it’s good to have turnover,” McKeon said. “You can get co-opted by the system here.”

SKY DIVE: His agency faces $8 billion in budget cuts over the next five years. But NASA Administrator Daniel Hardin says he is “not prepared to cut a nickel” from one local project--the space station partially being built at Rockwell International’s Rocketdyne division in Canoga Park. That was welcome news for Rocketdyne’s nearly 700 space station workers. . . . “We’ve drastically reorganized the program for the last two years,” said company spokesman Paul Sewell. “It’s hard to imagine where additional cuts could be found.”

POSTAL EXCHANGE: The most sweeping proposal to reform the price of mail will get its first local scrutiny today. . . . U. S. Postal Service exec Loren Smith will field questions at a postal expo at the Universal City Hilton. . . . If approved, the classification change would make typewritten envelopes less expensive to mail than handwritten ones, which are harder for postal workers to read.

NO LOITERING: Assemblyman Richard Katz (D-Sylmar) is tired of the waiting around. . . . Katz has introduced a bill that would enhance loitering laws--allowing police to arrest those who appear to be involved in drug dealing and prostitution (B2). But civil rights groups are expected to oppose the legislation.

NEW TUNE: Critics of Santa Clarita’s Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival are singing a different tune these days . . . Two years ago, naysayers lambasted city officials for funding the event. Now the festival pays for itself: Tickets are already sold out for this weekend (B14).

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Congressional Terms

A few local congressmen were elected to Congress more than two decades ago:

(Congressman: Years in Office)

Buck McKeon (R-Santa Clarita): 3

Howard Berman (D-Panorama City): 13

Anthony Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills): 19

Henry Waxman (D-Los Angeles): 21

Carlos Moorhead (R-Glendale): 23

Source: The Almanac of American Politics 1994