Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considering a salary increase for high-ranking federal officials (the pay for Congressmen would go from $44,600 to $57,000), federal energy agency proposals, and even some kind of amnesty for Viet Nam draft evaders and deserters...
Reports issued by Government commissions tend to be quickly shelved and forgotten. But one produced by the Commission on Executive, Legislative and Judicial Salaries is bound to hold Washington's-and the nation's-attention for some time to come. It proposes hefty pay increases for Senators, Congressmen, federal judges and most top officials in the Executive Branch...
...million was mentioned. Then Sprague began talking about $5 million, and some Congressmen began to get fidgety; eventually most concluded that such a sum was not really unreasonable for so intricate an investigation. Finally, last month, Sprague proposed $6.5 million-for just the first year-and the House Select Committee gulped. Nonetheless the committee unanimously approved the outlay, and the full House is expected to do so this month...
...Some Congressmen remain skeptical. Democrat Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana thinks the proposed budget is grotesquely swollen. Says Jacobs: "How unrealistic can this Government get? The difference between a $13 million investigation and a $500,000 investigation is that with the former, ways will somehow be found to waste...
...that the Washington Post and some 300 subscribing newspapers generally inter among the family pages. In recent months, however, Cheshire's byline has been strutting on the front page above scoops on the hottest continuing scandal of the year: alleged efforts by South Korean agents to bribe U.S. Congressmen...