Word: magnuson
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...Magnuson, 75, chairs the powerful Appropriations Committee, which heavily influences how the Government will spend its half-trillion dollars a year. He is also the ranking Democrat on the Budget and Commerce committees. In effect, he only needs to nod to have federal money steered toward his constituents. Boasts he: "Washington gets more federal money per capita [$1,850] than any state in the union." Everywhere there are signs of "Maggie's" vast power: $951 million of relief for the victims of Mount St. Helens' eruptions, $5.7 billion in hydroelectric projects on the Columbia River, including...
Seniority and control over federal expenditures: both are powerful assets that Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson touts in his campaign for a seventh term in the Senate. Ironically, they may also be his greatest liabilities...
...federal fiscal restraint has become attractive even to voters in Washington. As a result, Magnuson's pork-barrel record is no longer the asset that it was in past campaigns. Says his moderate Republican opponent, State Attorney General Slade Gorton: "I'm not saying Maggie hasn't done good for this state. He has. I'm saying he has now become part of the problem of ravaging inflation, and that I'm part of the solution...
...state attorney general (14) and initiated antitrust suits against some of the state's major industries and banks. He has a campaign war chest of $400,000 with the help of timber and small-business interests, but he is still being outspent more than 2 to 1 by Magnuson...
...even managed to make an enemy of powerful and popular Warren G. Magnuson, who has represented Washington in the U.S. Senate since 1944. Needing the support of Gordon Walgren, Democratic leader in the state senate, to block a bill on prison expansion, Ray offered to appoint him to Magnuson's seat if Magnuson should die. When Walgren reported the offer publicly, Magnuson, who is 75 and campaigning for a seventh term, was enraged. He shouted at reporters: "I want to tell the Governor there ain't gonna be no vacancy." He later endorsed McDermott for Governor...