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...Department of Education represents the spoils of interest group politics." Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) observes that the National Education Association--the bill's hardest pushing and most important lobby--never endorsed a presidential candidate until Carter promised he would create a Department of Education. Rep. John N. Erlenborn (R-Ill.) is less kind. "H.R. 13778 is a political payoff in every sense of the word," he told his colleagues, adding, "it is the cargo preference legislation of the education community." One longtime Capitol Hill observer is almost incredulous. "When you want to satisfy an interest group," she explains...
...With big cars dominating driveways, with Cuisinarts and Hotpoints filling kitchens (along with every other conceivable appliance from microwave ovens to garbage compactors), the villagers are hardly in a frame of mind to respond to the energy crisis. The home air conditioners will soon be humming again. Congressman John Erlenborn polled his constituents about energy and decided that they did not believe there was an energy crisis. Says a frustrated Schmeltzer: "Many still think that if you leave everything alone, all will be fine...
McCloskey, a close friend of Daly and the former employer of his two top assistants, neglected to mention it, but Harvard played a role quite as earnest as Dartmouth or Princeton in the ensuing hoopla. In a letter to Cong. John Erlenborn (R-Ill.), published in the Congressional Record, Daly detailed "educational and financial risks" which made private colleges such as Harvard gag at the plan. An aide to Greene later charged that the letter qualified as an overt act of lobbying...
...measure which seemed to have the best chance of passage was relatively mild compared to some of the measures in bills introduced. This bill--introduced by Rep. John N. Erlenborn (R.-Ill.) and strongly supported by Rep. Green as an alternative to more stronger bills--would have required any colleges recelving federal funds to file with the Commissioner of Education its rules for on-ampus behavior and the maintenance of order. In an effort to gain more support, it was later amended so that colleges would only have to draw up such rules, and show them to the commissioner...
...disturbances. The Congressmen--two of whom spent some days at Harvard interviewing students. Faculty and Administrators--also voiced strong support for what has come to be known as "university restructuring," to increase the responsiveness of universities to student concerns. The report, which was released just before hearings on the Erlenborn bill began, probably helped to swing some Republican Congressmen on the Green subcommittee against the bill...