Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Obey, 37, a tough-minded and rising Democratic star. The group advocated curbing the authority of the House Administration Committee, which Hays used to dispense favors and build his power until he resigned his chairmanship last week. Under Hays, the committee had the right to increase Congressmen's allowances and even the size of their staffs. To prevent abuses, Obey recommended that such changes be granted only by a vote of the full House...
Proper Records. The reformers also sought to reduce Congressmen's special funds and little extras that could be used to employ a woman with Ray's restricted talents. For example, the group voted to abolish the time-honored "cash-outs" system, under which a Congressman gets to keep any money from expense allowances-such as stationery and travel back home-that is not spent. Theoretically, he could pocket up to $11,000 every year. Under the present system, the Congressmen have 14 separate accounts, which they guard and use like so many cookie jars on the mantel. Obey...
Supporting the package were Congressmen, particularly first-termers, who face close elections and who were afraid the Democrats would be accused of coddling corruption if they voted no to reform. After seven hours of debate, catcalls and hisses, the Democrats shouted approval of the reforms. Most of the changes are eventually expected to be approved...
...Washington's current obsession with sex, there is plainly nothing sublime. But there was a growing sense of the ridiculous last week: mistresses summoning a panting press to titillating tell-all sessions, reform committees and task forces sprouting like mushrooms after a heavy rain, Congressmen quaking at the prospect that yesterday's forgotten indiscretion could be tomorrow's memorable Page One headline...
...Louisiana's conservative Democrat Joe D. Waggonner Jr., 57, admitted an encounter with District of Columbia police last January, but called it "an effort ... to entrap me." Vexed by Waggonner's account, Assistant Police Chief Theodore R. Zanders abandoned the department policy of silence on incidents involving Congressmen by issuing a statement that Waggonner had solicited sex from a policewoman...