European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Hep. Tom Tsuteh Towa holds son Joseph Lor an appearance in a july 4 Parade schedule around Itie Boston bed sox. We can accommodate lha Paris air show and the Kemper Tauke notes dryly. Wilson Morris an Alda to House speaker Jim Wright. Compares scheduling to the weather everyone complains about it but there s not much you can do about the lurching Progress of Bills through committee Ollen makes it Ditl cull to pin Down the legislative schedule Morris says furthermore he adds you can t schedule recesses that coincide with vacations in appt Wio or port not top new from if it Jill a swim Pat Pitt Fiol Toff baby mar and Brian. Mems 1987 every school District in the nation or three Day Washington work weeks that meet the needs of West coast members who have to go Home rep George Miller a Calif. Chairman of the House select committee on children youth and families has sons aged 18 and 22. When it comes to living arrangements we be had it every which his younger son wanted to go to High school in California so that is where the family lives now. Miller goes Home every weekend Wilh five other members from his area the gift is thai it lets you absolutely focus on the Job Milter says of the current Sel up to do that requires very Long Days. Then on weekends you concentrate your time on your family Miller Calls a congressman s Job very very he explains we consume a huge amount of Energy. We can Drain the Energy right out of another person. We re takers. We absorb the work product of our staff. We absorb the adulation of our constituents Miller lives with three other congressmen in a Capitol Hill apartment. The group provides a mechanism for releasing stress he says As Well As Billle reality checks to keep egos in line. Our living group sometimes says hey Knock in off. You can t talk o your Wile the that. You be got to Call her Back and straighten this out " sen. Danforth has five children Ages 15 to 27 they know that despite my Odd schedule they come he says. His advice to other Senate fathers constantly Lemirt yourselves that Long after the Senate is gone from our lives the Amily will be there unless you be become so wedded to the Senate hat you lose your family in the when rep. Tauke arrived at the Capitol in 1979, he was single and in Alfahed and spent a Good Many evenings Wilh lobbyist representing Corn growers Home builders and other groups no More he married Beverly Hubble a former Senate press Secretary in 19b4, and the couple had a son last oel Ober mrs Tauke is still Active in politics As a communications consultant and co chairman of sen Robert Dole s Iowa presidential Campaign both takes say his Tob was a Factor in her decision to word Only part time for me to have a new child and the demands of Tom s Job and a Lull Lime Job o my own. Frankly was just too much she says. A congressional family s biggest Challenge says mrs Tauke is to select and defuse problems before they become patterns. Every once in a while i have to catch myself because t begin to misunderstand his weariness she says of her husband. Obviously when you re courting when a person sees you. Their eyes Light up. Well if someone s batteries Aie dead Noah my lights up. If there s a pattern of exhaustion you can begin to think it s advice to congressional wives has an old fashioned ring to it find some interests of your own and pursue them. You la be a healthier person for it and hell be More interested Aii l stimulated by you than in you re inevitably just a minor cog in his system " the Tauke family lives in the Washington area bul thai May change As their son Joseph grows up. I would prefer to have him raised in Iowa rather than raised Oul Here says Tauke. Dowine first met his Wile in first Grade and married her in College they had two of their seven children before he graduated. Her Story is that when she married me i told he i was going to be a schoolteacher the Boyish looking lawmaker says with a laugh. His kids Range from six months to 19 years old. You have of have a spouse who understands what you re doing and is committed to what you do it has to be a team Effort if you have a family says Olewine. Whose Brood makes his Campaign posters and campaigns with him across his sprawling Dis incl tha Day of the interview fran a come was at the family s Ohio farmhouse baking pies with the help of friends and relatives for the 2,500 people expected to attend the do wines annual ice Cream social i like to Start out with 75 to 100 pies she says. Mrs Dewine is trained As a Home economics teacher but says she has t missed working outside the Home even in status conscious Washington even with a husband in Congress. I know a lot of congressional wives who Are lonely because their husbands Are so Busy they eel she says but i m so Busy with the family that i Don t really tee de Concemi feels strongly about the Quality of life movement although his three children Are no longer living at Home. When i first Cama Here i really was upset he recalls. I Ell i neglected my family i was rarely Home " even now. He says it s hard to schedule time Wilh a daughter who is a doctor practising right in s Wile Susie a social worker was Active in her Field Lor Only three years. It was her the senator says. She likes to travel Wilh me she s very involved she s the Best asset i have " uis Dacon Cim did an Inlo Imal study of the Senate divorce rate in i960 and found it below the National average thai does not mean everything is just romantically under Clealand around Here says econ Chi this is a hard Job for spouses really hard this town is non oriented toward women participating generally so spouses Are not included in a lol of events. I just Don t go to them the stars and Page 15
