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Since winning control of Congress??months ago, Democrats have been under immense pressure to pass legislation tightening the ethics rules that govern Washington. Corruption was the No. 1 issue on voters' minds, according to exit polls, but even as Democrats worked to pass a bill, public esteem for Congress sank to the lowest level ever--just 14% of people approve of the body...
Apologizes to anyone willing to listen?including Congress???for not paying more attention to the leak probe...
Geraldine Ferraro is one of only 47 women nominated for the House and Senate this year, a startlingly small number after a decade of feminist attempts to break old stereotypes. Indeed, in 1962 there were 20 women in Congress???18 in the House and two in the Senate. But next week women will probably win only 18 seats in the House and none in the Senate. Says South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Nominee Nancy Stevenson: "If there's any movement, it's been backward...
Carter wasted no time coming to the support of the agreement. He got on the phone from Plains to more than a dozen congressional leaders to ask for help in winning approval of the pact. He put his top troubleshooter, Hamilton Jordan, in charge of steering the treaty through Congress???the toughest assignment Jordan has been given since getting Carter elected. A White House task force under Jordan fired off wires to all 534 members of Congress, urging them to approach the treaty with open minds. White House emissaries were planning to ask for help from Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller...
...Baker tried to bury the issue by contending that the Republicans had faced up to it "with honor and dignity." And he carried the battle to the Democrats: "Since then, America has learned a lot about other political abuses in prior Democratic Administrations, and even in the present Democratic Congress???abuses of personal liberties, invasions of privacy and political mischief of the most shocking type. But there is one big difference. We faced ours, and in so doing, we raised the country's expectations for honorable government. But we are still waiting for the Democrats to face theirs...