Word: interests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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House leaders on both sides of the aisle are deeply disturbed by the vulnerability of members to single-interest lobbies. "It's a lot more difficult to say no to anybody," says Obey, "because so many people have well-oiled mimeograph machines." These lobbies have grown more influential as campaigns have become more expensive. To relieve the pressure, the Democratic leadership is pushing for public financing of campaigns...
...report did, however, detail a sometimes sloppy relationship between Lance's bank and the Carter enterprise in Plains. Loans to build a new warehouse and to construct a peanut sheller at one time totaled about $1 million. On two occasions, the bank reduced the interest rates on these loans, eventually to a rate of 1½ percentage points above the prime rate. At the time of the last rate reduction on the construction loan, the prime rate, which banks charge their most credit-worthy customers, was 7%. Said Lance: "There were good and sufficient banking reasons for those decisions...
Like tenacious barnacles, many questionable spending programs weigh down the federal budget. Successive Administrations have tried to zap the most outmoded and ineffective of these programs, only to have Congress restore them to please special-interest groups. But this year, the Office of Management and Budget thinks, the mood in the nation is strong enough to cut or eliminate the least useful of these projects...
...fair to say the Student Assembly poll results were of interest to the Corporation, but important issues of policy to the University are not going to be decided by referenda," Steiner said...
...realize what may happen to this response to your editorial. But in the interest of your usually fair journalistic practices, please don't bury it. Richard Chassin CRR student coalition