Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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House members wrote the new code of ethics into their rules more than a year ago, but legislation making it a law and extending it to the Executive and Judicial branches has been simmering in committee ever since. The code requires extensive disclosure by all Congressmen of their assets and income, and also limits their outside earnings, in most cases to $8,625 a year. This last provision upset many House members, but O'Neill made them agree to it in March 1977 in exchange for a fat increase in pay, from $44,600 to $57,500 a year...
...outside incomes from speaking fees and from businesses that are not owned by them or their families. Says Illinois Democrat Morgan Murphy, who made $60,000 a year in fees from his Chicago law firm: "The abuses and scandals that have hit this Congress are not related to the code of ethics. The fellows who take money or line up some broad are not covered. This code is just a weak attempt to say, 'We're not as bad as you've been reading...
Senate Bill 1437, the Criminal Code Reform Act of 1978, Frank Wilkinson, executive director of the Committee Against Repressive Legislation, Phillips Brooks House parlor...
...dispute over the sentence may be resolved eventually by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court; meanwhile it gave added force to the argument that more uniform guidelines for sentencing are needed. Such guidelines are contained in the revised U.S. Criminal Code that has been approved by the Senate and is now awaiting action in the House...
Still, the new U.S. Code will have little immediate impact on the administration of local justice. Unfortunately, in Houston, which is fast acquiring an unsavory reputation for "frontier justice," there are some who believe Judge Sterling's sentences for the police officers were too harsh. After all, as one citizen noted, "A few years ago, they would have been set free...