Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which the adroit spider lobbyist has cunningly woven for him?" But bribes were not ignored. By one estimate, at least $200,000 of the $7.2 million spent by the U.S. to buy Alaska in 1867 ended up in the pockets of Congressmen. Pennsylvania Republican Boss Simon Cameron, who served briefly and profitably as Lincoln's Secretary of War, summed up the financial ethics of the period: "An honest politician is one who, when bought, stays bought...
More recently, Railroad Lobbyist Pat Matthews cultivated a rewarding friendship with former House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills. Matthews had a network of railroad men who knew their home Congressmen intimately. Whenever the secretive Mills wanted a quick head count of the House on any issue, he flashed the word to Matthews. Within a single afternoon, back would come a surprisingly accurate count, and Mills could plot his strategy. In exchange, clauses benefiting railroads readily found their way into legislation from Mills' committee...
...control over Ways and Means is greatly diminished. A decade ago, the A.F.L.-C.l.O.'s skilled lobbyist Andrew Biemiller would figure that any clear labor issue had roughly 180 votes for it and the same number against it. He and his aides had only to work on about 75 Congressmen, whom they rated as "leaners," for or against them or so uncertain as to be considered "wobblies," "shaky legs" or even "bed wetters." Now Biemiller figures that only about 135 Congressmen can reliably be counted on to aid or oppose labor's position, and some 300 have to be individually...
...this year, Walker and the council's staff decided to press for rolling back the maximum capital gains tax, now 49%, to the 1969 level of 25%. The first Congressman they recruited to the idea was Wisconsin Republican William Steiger, who sponsored the legislation. Walker, meanwhile, began buttonholing Congressmen in hallways, countering Treasury Department arguments against the cut and working out potential costs to the federal Treasury on a computer belonging to one of his clients, General Electric...
...Ethics Committee's investigation of Korean influence buying he said: "There is another challenge to another institution of Government, and it's up to someone to ferret out the facts." Last week Jaworski decided to end his probe, with more questions unanswered than answered. The results are skimpy: four Congressmen facing disciplinary action, one former House member in jail and another former member facing trial for accepting gifts from Rice Dealer Tongsun Park...