Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...railing at swollen military budgets, Congress talks a good game. But where constituents are concerned, legislators all too often pull out the purse instead of the paring knife. One such sympathetic Senator is Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania: thanks to an amendment he tucked into a defense appropriations bill, a Pennsylvania firm stands to gain as much as $10 million to cover cost overruns on a fixed-price contract with the Navy...
...persuade unsympathetic Navy brass to renegotiate. Instead he went to Specter, asking for a bailout. The Senator received $9,500 from Dravo's political-action committee for his 1986 re-election campaign. Last September Hamberger gave Specter a draft of what he wanted -- an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that directed the Navy to reimburse Dravo for its overruns...
...argued that the Government got a better plant than it had bargained for. Specter would not comment on the matter; a staffer said the Senator "did nothing for Dravo that he doesn't do regularly for Pennsylvania companies, many of whom are not contributors." Buried in the 97-page bill, Specter's measure was approved with little fuss, and it later became part of last year's $290 billion defense appropriation. Congress added a dash of austerity: a $10 million cap was put on the amount Dravo could be reimbursed...
...around, he said. Ohio Governor Richard Celeste ended his brief toe dipping in Democratic waters, explaining he could not do his duty to Ohio and a presidential campaign simultaneously; Cuomo made the same argument in February. Others, including two Arkansan favorite sons, Senator Dale Bumpers and Governor Bill Clinton, have pleaded family concerns. Gary Hart, chased out for his lack of such family concerns, last week tentatively decided to end his quirky flirtation with re-entering the race and, friends say, is preparing to issue a statement to that effect...
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