Word: ribicoff
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...This was the centerpiece of one of the most chaotic finales to a congressional session in memory. As Senators and Representatives fought both fatigue and filibuster, they hurriedly voted on scores of measures in a rush to get home in time to campaign for reelection. Said Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff, a 16-year veteran of the Senate: "I don't recall an end of session worse than this...
...bill, which finally passed the House in April, came up last week before Senator Abraham Ribicoff's Governmental Affairs Committee?and was promptly consigned to either imminent death or limbo by the lobbyists. Leading the assault against it were such diverse persuaders as William Timmons, the former Capitol Hill liaison man for the Nixon and Ford Administrations, Freelancers Maurice Rosenblatt and William Bonsib, and Diane Rennert of the Association of American Publishers. In a multiple assault, they first threw their weight behind a much milder version of the bill, which was substituted for Ribicoff's stiff version. Despite telephone calls...
...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 than ever in history. It has become a big computerized operation in which the Congress and the public
...have been deducting their grass-roots lobbying efforts as a business expense despite clear congressional and IRS declarations that they may not do so. A few lobbyists seem to be in an unreasonable rush to cash in on the money available in the business. Two former aides of Senator Ribicoff tried to start their lobbying careers by advertising their services to help Americans working abroad lessen their tax burdens ?for a fee of $200,000. Ribicoff has denounced them, and their fellow lobbyists say they violated a rule of the trade: they were not discreet...
...lost in Congress." Carter's own mild approach to Congress is also at fault. Some veterans on the Hill vividly recall Lyndon Johnson's brutal lobbying as President. "What do you do when the President gets you on the phone and eats your consummate ass out?" asks Ribicoff about L.B.J. "He told me what a low-life bastard I was and how I'd better get right with