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...pleased to learn that Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is scheduled to lecture at the Kennedy School in April. There are some urgent questions regarding the integrity of the legislative process which I hope he will address...
...June, 1981, Senator Moynihan introduced a resolution in the Senate which provided that no bill could be sent to the House or to the President which a majority of Senators present and voting "cannot attest to having read." Mr. Moynihan assured his colleagues that the resolution was not in just, though it is unlikely he expected it to be adopted...
Recently, however, Mr. Moynihan voted for a bill providing that grants for magnet schools may not be used for "courses of instruction the substance of which is secular humanism." It is clear that he read the bill, because he defended his vote as "the price I had to pay to get school desegregation money." But, though he read it, he apparently didn't understand it. According to a report in the Times (February 22), Mr. Moynihan said. "I have no idea what secular humanism is. No one knows...
...White House blamed the manual on a single, "lowlevel" contract operative, identified pseudonymously as John Kirkpatrick. The still secret inspector general's report apparently suggested that Kirkpatrick resign, two employees be suspended without pay and three others receive formal letters of reprimand. New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan compared the disciplinary measures with canceling "weekend privileges for a month...
...technology has increasingly enabled global adversaries to sort through vast amounts of airborne telebabble in search of key words and phrases, ordinary telecommunications have become a priceless source of intelligence for the Soviet Union and, possibly, other nations. Says New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Vice Chairman of the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence: "The targets of Soviet interception of telephone communications now include our businesses, our banks, our brokerage houses, as frequently as our Government agencies . . . Private communications of all sorts have been violated, and on a scale that dwarfs any previous surveillance effort by friend...