Word: benefitting
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Equally intriguing to the press was Ferraro's apparent misinterpretation of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which requires members of Congress to disclose their spouses' income and assets if they stand to benefit from them, as well as their personal assets. Ferraro, who is a lawyer, had never disclosed Zaccaro's; she says she believed their separate careers entitled her to an exemption. Finally, Ferraro would have to answer for her husband's sometimes haphazard and occasionally controversial business dealings...
...financial disclosure exemption she has claimed as a House member, however, Ferraro was earnest but unpersuasive. Her tax returns report income from Zaccaro's business, and he pays the property taxes on all four of their homes. Yet to claim an exemption, a House member must get no benefit from a spouse's wealth, nor even have "the possibility of an inheritance from the interest." Ferraro's basic argument is that because she and Zaccaro have separate incomes, his wealth and its sources are irrelevant to her congressional performance...
...Dwight Eisenhower's second campaign for the White House in 1956 could the Republicans offer a more salable candidate. Polls are showing Reagan at the peak of his popularity with American voters; they are also documenting signs of new national feelings of patriotism and optimism that could only benefit an incumbent, particularly one so adept at exploiting that mood-a mood Reagan gets much credit for fostering...
...next two months, the critical thrust of both parties' Southern campaigns may be their respective registration efforts. No doubt the G.O.P. enterprise has in many places been able to benefit from racial fears and thus transform white nonvoters and Democrats into registered Republicans. In North Carolina (19% black electorate), says Elections Director Alex Brock, "Jesse Jackson began registration in the churches. But the Moral Majority picked up on it and may have surpassed him." In six months, G.O.P. registrations in rural Scotland County, N.C., increased from about 1,000 to almost 2,300. Lamarr Mooneyham, a Moral Majority official, says...
Critics point out that the exemption is open only to a Congress member who has no knowledge of and derives no benefit from a spouse's business, but Ferraro is secretary-treasurer of her husband's company. The right-wing Washington Legal Foundation has called for an investigation by the House ethics committee. Ferraro said she would explain her reason for claiming the exemption in a letter to the committee but would not discuss it with the press. The mystery, in any event, will not last long. Under a different section of the same law, Ferraro...