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...three doctored transcripts have been discovered, all of them involving hearings of the House Government Operations Committee. In addition to the EPA hearing, the panel's 1980 deliberations on an attempt by the Hunt family of Texas to manipulate the silver market and its 1982 discussions on synthetic fuel production were surreptitiously revised. "Some staff person was overzealous," says House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "He didn't do it with instructions from any member." The Massachusetts Democrat said that the culprit, if caught, should be fired...
...Gregg also said, "There were no partisan attacks on the EPA's failure to come into New Hampshire," which was changed to "There were no partisan aspects to the EPA'S activities in New Hampshire...
When the Administration was frantically trying to stop the cascading scandals at the Environmental Protection Agency last winter, the President turned to William Ruckelshaus for help. Ruckelshaus became the new EPA administrator, and the White House has begun to relax as the Republican with the "Mr. Clean" image has started to restore order to the shattered agency. "I want to make people feel good about where they work," he says. "The EPA has always been an agency whose people have a great deal of pride. Despite all the recent turbulence, the pride is still there...
Along with Elizabeth and Bob Dole, the Ruckelshauses have become one of the most visible and influential husband-and-wife teams in Washington. In contrast to Jill, Bill has been a quiet team player, moving to rehabilitate the EPA's reputation and employee morale, which were damaged by a spate of congressional investigations into political favoritism, conflict of interest and mismanagement of the toxic-waste program under former Chief Anne Burford...
However, new allegations continued to surface about EPA's management of the toxic-waste Superfund. In a press conference on Thursday, Representative John Dingell of Michigan charged that his committee's investigation into the agency had uncovered new evidence of wrongdoing by EPA officials. Dingell referred to a memorandum that Lavelle sent on Sept. 13, 1982, to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver. In it she proposed that the announcement of some Superfund grants in New Jersey be timed to benefit the election campaigns of two Republicans and that the President make an appearance...