Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 100 amendments await the bill on the House floor. But what really got O'Neill worried was the fact that the House's code requires Congressmen to file financial disclosure statements with the House clerk by April 30. O'Neill was the first to issue a financial report, listing a net worth of $181,000 and describing himself as "a man of modest means." But other Representatives object to disclosing their personal finances, even though the need for a strong code was underscored last week by the sentencing of former Democratic Representative Richard Hanna...
Also in trouble: former Democratic Representative Otto Passman of Louisiana, indicted for accepting $213,000 from Park, and Democratic Representative Daniel Flood of Pennsylvania, under investigation for suspected kickback schemes. In all, 13 Congressmen and one Senator have been indicted since 1970 for illegal acts committed while in office...
...Navy's backers, who include a number of powerful Congressmen, U.S. security depends on surface vessels capable of performing the two major missions that have been assigned to them since the end of World War II. They are: ? Projecting power abroad. This primarily means using the warplanes and Marine Corps detachments aboard aircraft carriers stationed in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic to help repel any Soviet attack against the relatively poorly defended flanks of NATO. The Sixth Fleet's two carriers, for instance, can rapidly commit more than 100 fighter-bombers, about half a dozen early-warning command...
...sell U.S.-made jet fighters to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. No one objected to the sale of 15 F-15s and 75 F-16s to Israel and few were worried about Egypt's purchase of 50 less sophisticated F-5Es. But a number of Senators and Congressmen, many of them under pressure from the Israeli lobby, were dead set against allowing Saudi Arabia to buy 60 F-15s (seebox...
...ever heard of voters demanding a smaller tax cut than the President wants to give them? The Congressmen who are now debating Jimmy Carter's tax package, that's who. They are getting a message from the folks back home that defies all conventional political wisdom. Its essence: voters are so frightened by inflation that they are against anything that might make it worse−including cuts in their own taxes that would swell the federal budget deficit. Such feelings can only be deepened by last week's news that consumer prices in March shot...