Word: contentions
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...time in private, according to people who knew them both. He was put off by the blonde bombshell's four-letter-word vocabulary. He explained earthily why he plucked Jane Russell from obscurity to star her in The Outlaw. But he did no more than stare. He was content to design a complicated brassiere to enhance her charms...
...consternation of most senators, Common Cause has held that all newsletters, regardless of content, constitute "political matter." It claims mass mailings from Capitol Hill provide politicians added public exposure--at the public's expense. "Mass mailings do more to promote the re-election of a senator than merely to communicate," Common Cause attorney Ken Guido said in an interview last month. "Every time a newsletter is mailed, it serves as a detriment to any potential political challenger. It's pure promotion...
...some degree, the Senate has attempted to dampen Common Cause criticism by regulating the content of newsletters and other large franked mailings. Until this year, the Senate regulations were so loose that an occasional proliferation of blatantly election-oriented newsletters was not uncommon. A close examination of Senate newsletters issued in the last year show a wide variety of styles and content, ranging from self-serving puffery to informative discussions of issues with a fair presentation of contrasting views. The style often has reflected each senator's self-perception--whether he views himself chiefly as a public "educator...
Effective January 1 this year has been a new Senate rule, aimed to tighten the restriction of newsletter content to legislative rather than "political" matters. Personal references to a senator--his name, any personal pronoun or the ubiquitous "The Senator"--now are limited to no more than five per page. Predictably, this limit surprised a number of Senate press secretaries, especially those accustomed to a writing style peppered with phrases like "I believe that..." and "I have sponsored a bill that would...." The Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct ("The Ethics Committee") agreed to this new rule last November...
Common Cause attorney Guido said the Senate's self-initiated restraints on newsletter content were "improvements," but "do not solve the fundamental problem of unfair privilege" in the use of the frank. Scott in his floor speech remarked that the lobby group's suit "seeks to stop completely and entirely this type of communication with constituents under the frank, although it is clearly part of our official duties under the Constitution as elected representatives of the people...