Word: congressmen
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...skeptics argue that, in effect, all U.S. Congressmen and state legislators are already ombudsmen. Not so, says Gellhorn. To be sure, Congress receives 100,000 letters a day, a vast percentage of them constituents' requests for anything from Fort Knox gold bricks to intercession with regulatory agencies. Unfortunately, says Gellhorn, the episodic results merely assure individual votes rather than broad reforms. Worse, most state legislators cannot even help their constituents. Thirty state legislatures meet only biennially, and newcomers fill half the seats at each session; only eleven states pay legislators more than $5,000 a year, and funds...
Rare Coalition. Neither of the issues that many observers considered pivotal ?the "white backlash" and Viet Nam ?had a profound effect on voting patterns. Of 25 Congressmen threatened by the backlash, according to a Congressional Quarterly survey, 17 emerged as winners, including Ohio's Republican William McCulloch, who played a major role in getting the 1964 Civil Rights Bill through the House...
...G.O.P.'s most spectacular Midwest gains came in the House races and were, in large part, the result of having exceptionally attractive young candidates. In Michigan, Republican challengers ousted all five of the Democratic Congressmen who were newly elected in 1964. Biggest upset occurred in the Seventh District (Flint and environs), where Republican Donald W. Riegle Jr., 28, literally quit school?he was working on a business doctorate at Harvard?to take on First-Termer John Mackie, 46, Democratic wheelhorse and longtime state highway commissioner. Riegle, who tirelessly trod city streets and crashed Democratic rallies, buried Mackie...
...congressional seats in Ohio, where voters recalled all three of their Democratic freshmen, chief among them Cincinnati's capable John Gilligan, narrowly beaten (margin: 7,832 votes out of 131,340) by Robert Taft Jr.. son of Mr. Republican. In Iowa, where five Democrats swept out veteran Republican Congressmen in 1964, the only survivor was Representative John Culver, who had a weak challenger in Cedar Rapids Mayor Robert Johnson...
...invested 29 of his 52 years in the 105-year-old Comptroller's office, rising from bank examiner to Saxon's first deputy. In naming Camp, Johnson followed his recent tendency to select noncontroversial careerists to head regulatory agencies. The appointment was hailed unanimously by bankers, Congressmen, officials of other Government agencies and Jimmy Saxon. Reported the American Banker, daily bible of moneymen: "Almost everyone who has been associated with Mr. Camp considers him an affable, easy-to-get-along-with individual who knows the ins and outs of the business...