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Since 1798, 94 congressmen have faced criminal charges (55 were found guilty or pleaded no contest). Although this chart shows a great increase in alleged illegalities in the 1970's, this may have more to do with changes in our laws rather than in the behavior of our elected officials...
Ellenbogen, like many students, says he is uncomfortable with generational politics. "Americans in general have become cynical about leaders, which is destorying the fabric," he says. "We need to work with the system. People in their twenties have a lot to offer...Congressmen recognize that...
...Associations (USAA), which has 350 member campuses, 3.5 million members and registered 200,000 young voters in 1992, may lack the media savvy of Third Millennium, but they can still make legislators sit up and listen. "Third Millennium can't get 30,00 students to write in to their Congressmen like we can," says USSA president Tchiyuka Cornelius...
...Topeka Foundry & Iron Works last week, the setting was new, but the set was familiar: klieg lights, blue-draped dais, place cards, Congressmen, a sprinkling of average Americans and the President, headlining another health- care forum. The audience of 150 Kansas business owners was treated to the spectacle of the nation's President, looking every bit the Accountant in Chief, doing business math for a Mexican-restaurant owner, a flower-shop owner, an architect, a construction-company owner and a farmer. Their chief concern was how much money they personally would fork over if his plan became law. Regina Jaramillo...
Greenspan has used subtler tactics to parry thrusts by Congressmen like Henry Gonzalez of Texas, who chairs the House Banking Committee. First, Clinton dampened support for the Texan's proposals for more Fed openness by sending him a letter last September opposing any fundamental changes in the Federal Reserve Act. Then Greenspan sought to outflank Gonzalez in February and March by taking the unprecedented step of announcing the rate hikes the same day the Fed decided to enact them...