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...case has been complicated by allegations that Rep Silvio O Conte (R Mass.) applied political pressure to get Harvard the contract...
...article in the January issue of the American Psychological Association Monitor suggested that Justiz's decision in favor of Harvard may have been the result of political pressure brought on the NIE by Silvio O. Conte (R-Mass.), ranking minority member of the House committee which controls NIE funds...
...unexpurgated first draft of the report, however, promptly leaked. It praised some members of Congress for placing the national interest above their home-district concerns (Democratic Representatives Les Aspin of Wisconsin and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado and Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts). It also noted candidly that some of the best-known legislators had dipped into pork-barrel politics. Among them: Democratic Presidential Candidate Ernest Hollings and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, both of South Carolina (for fighting to keep Fort Jackson, near Columbia, open); Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas (for preventing the closing of a Housing and Urban...
...script also called for Congressman Silvio Conte to get a phone call from Ronald Reagan, the admirer who had a portrait of the parsimonious Coolidge moved into the Cabinet Room 2½ years ago. The chat between John Coolidge and Reagan will be beamed out over the lawn. John thought he might tell the story of his father's taking his two boys to stand in front of a bank. "See if you can hear anything," Coolidge admonished. They could not and so reported. "I thought if you listened carefully you might hear your money working...
Enter the scrappy Silvio Conte of Massachusetts ($1 1,812 in fees, $3,000 to charity), ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee. "Those guys are going to get $200,000 next year," he fumed."There's going to be no end to it!" Last month he attached the 30% limit applying to Senators as an amendment to a supple mental appropriations bill. But the provision was killed in a Senate subcommittee...