Word: republicans
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...often do Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and the liberal lobbying group Common Cause find themselves on the same side of an issue with the major oil companies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the leadership of the Republican Party. But last week just such a formidable, if unlikely coalition sank the Energy Transportation Security Act of 1977, better known as the cargo preference bill. In a confused and acrimonious vote, the House of Representatives defeated the bill, 257 to 165. In so doing, the legislators rejected both Jimmy Carter's endorsement of the measure and a campaign...
...Fisheries Committee, and $51,713 to five other prominent committee members. Jimmy Carter was another beneficiary of the unions' largesse; he received more than $100,000 in his bid for the presidency. So when Murphy sponsored the cargo preference bill and Carter backed it last July, House Republican Leader John Rhodes was not totally unjustified in charging "political payoff...
Last week Republican Congressman James Quillen of Tennessee picked up the partisan attack where Rhodes had left off. Said he: "The House has no business inflicting higher oil prices on the American people in order to fulfill President Carter's campaign promises to the maritime unions." Sponsor Murphy replied that he and his supporters were only trying to salvage the U.S. merchant fleet, which has dwindled from 5,000 to 570 ships during the past three decades...
...vote on the bill. Those in favor shouted their votes louder than the opponents, and O'Neill announced that the ayes had it. At that moment, according to House procedure, a Congressman may request a roll call. But one of the bill's chief opponents, California Republican Paul McCloskey, was engaged in conversation and did not realize what had happened as O'Neill moved on to other motions...
Other testimony revealed, in at least one instance, exactly where in the Capitol Kim was headed. Nan Elder, an aide to Kansas Republican Representative Larry Winn Jr., recalled that in 1972 a Korean had dropped an envelope off in her boss's office and that she opened it, at Winn's request, to find "more money than I've ever seen in my life." She tracked the man down at another Congressman's office, and he returned to pick up the rejected gift. Elder has identified the Korean from a selection of 14 pictures...