Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coal miners have a right to live, to breathe, and to be protected by 20th century safety standards. The nation must rise up and demand that strong and effective mine-safety legislation be passed by Congress...
Because hapless Truman Newberry spent the then shocking sum of $195,000 to win a U.S. Senate seat from Michigan in 1918, Congress-six years later -passed the Corrupt Practices Act. The law's principal proviso is that no single donor may give more than $5,000 to any one national campaign organization. As a result, candidates who are seriously interested in winning commonly set up dozens of such organizations; thus a big contributor can simply spread his largesse around in $5,000 wads...
...tougher stipulation of the law is that each campaign committee must report its income and expenditures to Congress ten days, and then again five days, before the election. The theory behind this requirement is that the voters should know before going to the polls whether any candidate has spent an excessive amount...
...First Amendment says, "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances...
Also before Congress is a "Truth-in-Polling" Bill, submitted by Rep. Lucien Nedzi (D-Mich.). This would require that within 72 hours of publication of any political survey the following facts be filed with the Library of Congress and made available to the public...