Word: congressmen
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...hamstringing the PACs, Congressmen would be denying themselves a heavy advantage that they now enjoy over challengers: three-fourths of PAC contributions go to incumbents. Officeholders who won re-election last year with 70% or more of the vote got $19.1 million from PAC pockets. The Boren proposal would restrict PAC contributions to a total of $100,000 for a House candidate and up to $750,000 for Senate aspirants, based on state population. The PAC limits could be proposed again in the spring--a dim prospect when 34 Senators, many fueled with PAC money, will be starting their...
...deficit must be reduced. But politicians should be open about how they intend to do it. Many say privately that they intend to raise taxes when the political climate for an increase is less forbidding. More than likely, some of these Congressmen see Gramm-Rudman as an opportunity for artificial climate control: The automatic cuts will come into play only if revenues do not increase, either through new taxes or a growing economy. Others, however, undoubtedly mean what the bill says: they want vast cuts, soon, and they could very well attempt to block any tax hikes for precisely that...
...near New Orleans until Medvid was allowed an interview to discover his intentions. By the time the interview took place last week, the Soviet sailor said he wanted to go home. The U.S. release of Medvid to the Soviets drew a chorus of protest from more than a dozen Congressmen...
Lobbyists said Rostenkowski promised key Congressmen a tradeoff: in return for backing the bond cap--whose effects would be felt especially hard in the East, which has a lot of private universities--he would back other proposals to allow taxpayers to deduct state and city taxes from federal tax bills...
...same enthusiastic applause he had received at other barnstorming stops. Yet as Republican Senator Steve Symms observed, "They were cheering, but it was for him, not for tax reform." Various polls indicate public apathy on the proposal despite general support for the idea of tax reform, and Congressmen of both parties are expressing skepticism. As a radical budget-balancing bill dominates debate on Capitol Hill, tax reform appears to be dead for 1985--and perhaps beyond...