Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lobbying as such is scarcely a sin. Quite the contrary. "Without lobbying," declared three Senators (Democrats Edward Kennedy and Dick Clark, Republican Robert Stafford) in a joint statement on the lobby disclosure bill, "Government could not function. The flow of information to Congress and to every federal agency is a vital part of our democratic system. But there is a darker side to lobbying. It derives from the secrecy of lobbying and the widespread suspicion, even when totally unjustified, that secrecy breeds undue influence and corruption." Chairman Ribicoff observes that "lobbying has reached a new dimension and is more effective...
...which the adroit spider lobbyist has cunningly woven for him?" But bribes were not ignored. By one estimate, at least $200,000 of the $7.2 million spent by the U.S. to buy Alaska in 1867 ended up in the pockets of Congressmen. Pennsylvania Republican Boss Simon Cameron, who served briefly and profitably as Lincoln's Secretary of War, summed up the financial ethics of the period: "An honest politician is one who, when bought, stays bought...
...relationship between the lobbyist and the lobbied. Yet until the recent reforms in Congress, the modern lobbyist's most effective tactic was to concentrate on the committees where the vital decisions were made. A few decades ago, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Lobbyist Walter Mason helped labor's cause by getting Pennsylvania Republican Carroll Kearns so drunk on the nights before key meetings of the House Education and Labor Committee that he was unable to cast his usual antilabor vote...
...head of the Washington-based American Council for Capital Formation. Early this year, Walker and the council's staff decided to press for rolling back the maximum capital gains tax, now 49%, to the 1969 level of 25%. The first Congressman they recruited to the idea was Wisconsin Republican William Steiger, who sponsored the legislation. Walker, meanwhile, began buttonholing Congressmen in hallways, countering Treasury Department arguments against the cut and working out potential costs to the federal Treasury on a computer belonging to one of his clients, General Electric...
...about the middle of this week, Republican Phil Crane, 47, history PhD., father of seven daughters and a son, Camel smoker, son of Chicago Columnist Dr. George W. Crane ("The Worry Clinic"), will announce that he is running. Jimmy Carter will not quake in his boots. Ronald Reagan will be mildly irritated, Gerald Ford will be amused, and Crane himself will wonder for at least four seconds what in the world he has done...