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GOP "PORK OVER PEOPLE"
A Collection Of Bullets From The DNC Briefing
ELIMINATE ALL PORK (EXCEPT MINE) SAYS NEWT - On the day that the House of
Representatives is expected to vote on the Presidential Line-Item Veto, Speaker Gingrich might rethink his 1994 statement to his constituents, 'My track record shorn I have helped people in very
direct ways... But one thing's for sure, the Speaker of the House will be able to bring home a lot
more bacon than a freshman." With $2.3 million a day coming in, Newt Gingrich's hometown
Cobb County is the third highest recipient of federal dollars. Cobb Country receives $7,491 per
person annually. In fiscal year 1992, the county received $10.5 million for highways, $2.6 million
for community development, $14 million for schools, $4.8 million for college grants and loans,
$114.7 million for Medicare benefits, $308.8 million in Social Security, $92.3 million in federal
retirement and disability, $20.7 million in veterans benefits, etc. rMarietta Daily Journal. 10/23/94;
The Washington Post Marine. 2/5/95)
GRAMM UPDATE:
NEWSWEEK PROFILES GRAMM'S HYPOCRISY: A profile of Gramm in today's Newsweek
says that Gramm has a "habit of saying one thing and doing another." Gramm has said, " I believe
that government is the problem," yet he has spent most of his life on the government payroll.
Gramm portrays himself as a downsizer of government yet he vigorously pursues pork for Texas -he once said, "I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis." Gramm has criticized
others for not serving in ihe military, yet he accepted five military deferments in the Vietnam era.
[Newsweek. 2/20/9.V|
PRESIDENT VOWS TO VETO GOP LEGISLATION TO GUT FUNDING FOR 100,000
COPS:
Repeating his earlier warning, the President yesterday restated his determination to veto Republican
::rime legislation that kills funding to put 100,000 additional cops on the street. His comments
echoed last Saturday's weekly radio address in which the President stated, "Anyone on Capitol Hill
who wants to play partisan politics with police officers for America should listen carefully: I will
veto any effort to repeal or undermine the 100,000 police commitment, period." Instead of
guaranteeing funding for 100,000 additional police officers on the street. House Republicans passed
legislation yesterday to block grant the money allowing the funds to be used for virtually anything
- including pork barrel projects. [NYT, 2/12/95]
POLICE LEADERS 'SICK AT HEART* OVER GOP'S CHOICE OF POLITICS OVER
'POLICE: Law enforcement leaders around the country are expressing their anger and frustration
ihat Republicans killed ihe President's community policing program which would have put 100,000
new officers on the street. Police Chief Watkins of Austin, TX: "I'm afraid the money will just
disappear and I'm sick at heart about ii " Police Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske, Buffalo, NY: "We
have spent thousands of hours planning how to apply for grants, and it is now very possible we will
never see the money.' Police Chief Dennis Nowicki, Charlotte, NC: "The chance for the money to
jjet misdireciecl is great. It could end up being spent on things that have no effect on crime. So
you're apt to end up with pork." I NYT. 2/16/95]
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CONTRACT WITH AMERICA UPDATE:
25 MILLION CHILDREN MAY LOSE SCHOOL LUNCH, WHILE GOP FEASTS ON
PORK: Yesterday, Republicans chose "Pork Over People" as they decimated the nation's hot
school lunch program. While studies have shown that school nutrition programs cause significant
improvement in school attendance and achievement on standardized tests, House Republicans voted
to repeal school nutrition programs - which have been in existence for 49 years and enjoyed bipartisan support from Harry Truman io Richard Nixon. In the place of these programs, which now
feeds 25 million children daily. Republicans have cut the funding and "block granted" money to
states
-- with no assurance as io how it would be used. Yet, while they were willing to cut lunches for 25
million children, Republicans could not bring themselves to cut congressional pork. As the Wash.
Post reported, "In a srark example of differing priorities. GOP appropriators relented on plans to
cut $6.5 million earmarked Jar building a visitors center in Newport, Ore., in the home state of
commhtee member Jim Bunn (R-Ore.)" [Wash. Post. 2/23/95; NYT, 2/22/95]
POINT TO REMEMBER: 600.000 Summer Jobs Vs. £600.000 Increase For the Speaker's Office:
Behind the Republican rhetoric about revolution is the same old business-as-usual, pork-barrel
politics. While the Republican leadership is proposing to eliminate 600,000 summer jobs for young
people. Newt Gingrich is giving his office $600,000 more for its own needs.
LINE ITEM VETO SUFFOCATING IN THE SENATE: Having failed to pass a balanced budget
amendment through his own Republican Senate, Sen. Bob Dole has now postponed a vote on line
item veto legislation tor a week or more. One GOP aide said the vote on the bill, which would give
President Clinion the power to remove pork and pet spending projects from the annual budget, has
been delayed because Republicans don't want io see "more Republican on Republican violence."
[Wash. Post. 3/13/95]
MORE PORK OVER PEOPLE: THEY'LL CUT SCHOOL LUNCHES...BUT NOT GOP
PORK:
Last Friday, newly Republican Sen. Richard Shelby (AL) led the charge in the Senate
Appropriations Committee efforts to preserve more than $150 million in un-requested and un-needed
federal construction projects. The projects that Shelby preserved included: $6.4 million for a
courthouse in Corpus Christi, TX, home state of Shelby friend Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX), $19.2
million for an IRS office in Sen. Al D'Amaro's (R-NY) home state of New York, $26.3 million for
a courthouse in Hammond, IN, home state of Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), and $121.9 million for a
courthouse in Phoenix, AZ, home state of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). [Washington Post. 3/27/95]
GOP HOUSE MEMBERS TRY TO SNEAK PORK INTO TAX BILL: GOP House members
are scrambling to get some last-minute pork into a new Ways and Means Committee tax bill.
Amonsi some of the porkish suggestions: Rep. Toby Roth (R-WI) wants to allow a deduction for
business meetings held on cruise ships, and Rep. Michael Crapo (R-ID) wants to permanently
exempt Idaho's sheepherclcrs from paying unemployment taxes for temporary foreign workers. [AP,
5/10/95J
PRESENT TO VETO REPUBLICAN PACKAGE THAT CUTS EDUCATION, PROTECTS
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LQBRV 1ST ACCESS TO GINGRICH:
LOP-OVISTS ENJOY UNPRECEDENTED INFLUENCE UNDER GINGRICH
The ' !„.'.;T.-CI Journ;il notes iluxt "The Republicans were elected in November to change the way
Wash!:-:::on works. Hut one thing IIHSH'I changed. The Capitol is still crawling with lobbyists.
Indeed, :;omc observers say lobbyists have never before enjoyed as much power and prominence as
they no-.v
" Gingrich's respunsc to ihe GOP's unprecedented close working relationship with
indust'-;' Ini-hyists: "As long as it's out in the open, I have no problem." [WSJ. 4/20/95)
v
NEWT'S TIES TO THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY
Monday's Wall Street Journal reported that the National Restaurant Association (NRA) and its
memh^is has become "the Capitol's newest lobbying powerhouse." Republicans are moving on
some ( 'he NRA's priorities, including relaxing child labor laws and the Fair Labor Standards Act,
"
whic
:--ifes the 40-hour workweek and time-and-a-half overtime pay. The restaurant association
and i -mbcrs have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Newt Gingrich's extracurricular
fundi :!••>• enterprises. Gingrich accepted $25,000 from a restaurant industry lobbyist for his
aatio' "y t.devised college course, then repeatedly discussed the idea - promoted by the lobbyist that b r-'ying jobs in restaurants aren't dead ends. The House Ethics Committee is looking at the
lobby - 's donaiion because it came with the note "Newt - thanks for the help on today's committee
heari' !;." alter the lobbyist successfully sought a spot on a witness panel. According to House
Repu' : nn ! cadcr Dick Armey, "the restaurant folks" are "clearly in the favored category. You
Isnov.'
ok! adage - dance with the ones that brung you." fWall Street Journal. 6/26/95]
:
1
,
:
T
GIN
Vi S FOUNDATION TURNS CORPORATE CASH INTO POLICY
Busi •
notes that "as quivk as you can say 'Newt Gingrich,' the upstart Progress &
Free:
-'Ulation has bullied its way omo center stage - and is being heard. Flush with
ooip
-•'•-. it's pumping out policy prescriptions for dumping the Federal Communications
C o m : - . .ixing federal block grants, and privatizing safety and efficacy reviews of prescription
drug:
•'-.••!ical devices. There's no trick to PFF's success: It has benefitted mightily from a
cozy :' '•••••vihip with the Republican House Speaker, and access-hungry corporations are giving
fjene'- " 'y.. f'FF appears to have almost single-mindedly promoted the Speaker. During its first
20 m 'vs. i-mghly 43% of the group's $1.4 million budget went to funding Gingrich's televised
colle-- '''.•' <re series. Renewing American Civilization, and his cable television show. Progress
Repr
noisiness Week. 6/27/95]
:
:
GO'
" ARE PLAN A BOON TO GINGRICH BACKER GOLDEN RULE INSURANCE
Tod;
V ' " Street Journal reports that Speaker Gingrich has endorsed Medical Savings Accounts
(MS
of several alternatives to the current Medicare system. The top proponent and
bene ' • ; -•f MSAs is Golden Rule Insurance, which in recent years has become one of the
c o u t v l ^j'.-st contributors to Republicans, most notably Gingrich. Golden Rule gave nearly $1
mill: :••- !•'•.publicans for the 1994 election; its top executives have given Gingrich's GOPAC well
over
thousand dollars; and the company sponsored a conservative cable TV talk show
host •';•«' ':::vcb. Gingrich's plan to make MSAs part of the Medicare system is not the only
brea
l-'.ule has gotten from the GOP Congress -- earlier this year a House subcommittee
chair
'.WC fundraiser Rep. Joe lianon - dropped an investigation into allegations that
Golc
''. ':' 'insurance was clserry-picking healthy customers and denying too many claims. ("Wall
Strc '
. -• 3/15/95: Newsweek. 2/13/95]
;
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THE ^-OP AGENDA:
DOT
. '"LATORY BILL TIED TO SPECIAL INTERESTS: Yesterday, a coalition of
publ:. ' " • c r o u p s released a report entitled "Special Access For Special Interests" - detailing
the i: v••. :i::ng access that corporate interests had in writing Bob.Dole's "regulatory reform" bill
!••!
(53.-, •••• • -.'.y being debated on the Senate floor. The report concludes that the Dole bill "would
radic••>"-_: ; ' " the balance between public and corporate interests "favoring corporate interests at
the
•> ••: public health and .safety." [Special Access For Special Interests. 7/12/95)
•.
•
r,x:
r
FAIF.C .077-J WORKS TO BENEFIT HIS HOG FARMS
•
•.?•, :::v: of the nation's leading hog farmers, Senator Lauch Faircloth (R-NC) drafted and was
• "'•/nal co-sponsor of legislation (S. 851) which would loosen wedand regulations -farmers to use some wetlands for farming. Faircloth, who owns more than 500
':• wetlands, would sumd to benefit from the bill because the value of non-wetlands is
i:n!ly more than the value of wetlands. Last year, Faircloth lobbied for a pork
worth as much as $135,000 to Faircloth and co-sponsored legislation benefitting pork
or Lundy, on whose board of directors he sat. Faircloth has also taken over $200,000
:
PACs who fought against strengthening the Clean Water Act, which regulates hog
n-r-ns. fCharlotte Observer. 3/26/95 and 12/11/94; S. 851; Money Waters; Philadelphia
r-!',. .ircr. 12/17/94]
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HOW TO RENOUNCE YOUR CITIZENSHIP
'I hereby absolutely and entirely renounce my United States nationality together with all rights and
privileges and all duties of allegiance and fidelity'
- Portion of one-page oath signed by tax expatriates, quoted in Baltimore Sun. 4/19/95
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TIMELINE
HOUSE GOP PROTECTS EXPATRIATE LOOPHOLE FOR THE RICH
In his FY 1996 budget. President Clinion proposed dosing the tax loophole that allows American citizens
to renounce their citizenship, thereby avoiding United States taxes on their estates. Administration
qfflciab estimate two dozen millionaires and billionaires renounce their citizenship each year to avoid
paying estate and income taxes.
November 1994:
President Clinton reads an article in Fortune magazine ("The New Refugees", 11/21/94)
describing the expatriate loophole.
February 6, 1995:
President Clinton introduces his FY 1996 Budget. He included a provision closing the expatriate
loophole.
Under the Clinton proposal:
• the first $600,000 in unrealized income would be exempt from taxation;
• Americans whorenouncetheir citizenship would berequiredto pay taxes on long - term/held
assets immediately;
4 would raise $2.4 billion in new revenue over five years and $3.6 billion over ten.
[Washington Post. 3/31/95; Congressional Press Release, 4/4/95]
4 only those that renounce their citizenship after 2/6/95 would be subject to the new taxes.
[Assistant Treasury Secretary Leslie Samuel, "Prime Time Live", 2/22/95]
February 8, 1995:
House Republicans in Ways and Means reject an amendment by Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) to
close the loophole and use the revenue to pay for the health insurance deduction for the selfemployed and non-covered employees.
February 21, 1995:
House GOPers reject an amendment by Ways and Means Ranking Democrat Sam Gibbons and
Rep. McDermott to close the loophole.
March 21, 1995:
The Senate Finance Subcommittee on Taxation and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Oversight
hears testimony on the loophole.
March 24, 1995:
The Senate passes the bill containing a provision which would close the loophole. The provision
was offered By Sen. Bill Bradley (D-NJ) as an amendment to H.R. 831, an amendment to the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
March 25, 1995:
The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight hears testimony on the loophole.
March 29, 1995:
The provision was dropped in conference at House Republicans' insistence. [Legi-slate database
and Wall Street Journal. 3/30/95]
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March 30, 1995:
John Boehner, chair of the House Republican Conference instructs the Joint Tax Committee to
study the issue. [Congressional Press Release, 3/30/95]
Miirch 31, 1995:
Rep. Sam Gibbons (D-FL) writes to the State Department requesting the names of any Americans
expatriating.
Apiril 4, 1995:
Rep. Gibbons writes to Ways and Means Chair Bill Archer (R-TX) requesting Archer to join him
in a another letter to the State Department requesting the names of any recent expatriates.
Archer refused Rep. Gibbons request. fNational Journal's CongressDailv: 4/10/95]
Former Senator Steve Symms (R-ID) appears of CNN's "Crossfire" to defend to loophole.
April 6, 1995:
Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) is joined by three other Republican Senators (Larry Craig of Idaho,
Jon Kyi of Arizona and Connie Mack of Florida) voting against a non-binding Senate resolution
expressing the sense of the Senate to revisit the issue, f Associated Press. 4/6/95]
May 2, 1995:
Rep. Gibbons introduces legislation closing the loophole. The proposal is referred to the Ways
and Means.
June 1, 1995:
The Republican-controlled Joint Tax Committee releases its report.
Jun<i 13, 1995:
On a party line vote, Ways and Means Republicans pass a provision taxing expatriates on their
assets for 10 years after the expatriation. Inserted in thefinalversion is a provision exempting
those who expatriate to a country where he or she, their spouse, or at least one parent was born.
[AP. 6/14/95; MXT, 7/10/95]
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FORMER GOP MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
LEAD THE CHARGE AS HIRED GUNS FOR TAX EXPATRIATES
The top two lobbyists working to preserve the loophole for tax expatriates are two
former Republican Members of Congress: former House Ways and Means Committee member
Guy Vander Jagt (R-MI) and former Senator Steve Symms (R-ID).
Steve Symms:
Symms, Lehn & Associates, Inc.
Client: Unknown (hired by NY law firm Marks & Murase for unnamed client)
Former Idaho Republican Senator Steve Symms was identified by the Washington Post as
lobbying for maintenance of the expatriate tax loophole. Symms also appeared on CNN's
"Crossfire" (3/31/95) to defend the break. Pressreportslist Symms as working for the New
York law firm of Marks and Murase on behalf of an unnamed client in the U.S. and his firm
has registered to lobby for Marks & Murase on behalf of "provisions of HR-SSl" ~ the bill
to which the loophole closing provision was originally attached. Symms, Lehn & Associates
received $15,000 for their work during the first three months of this year. [Clerk of the
House/Secretary of the Senate]
• Although the Washington Post cites Symms identifying his client as a "Richard
Marks", Martindale-Hubbell reports that a Ramon Marks is a partner in Marks and
Murase. [Martindale-Hubbell]
• Rabbi Jack Moline (vice-president of the Washington Board of Rabbis) is also
working on behalf of Marks and Murase and testified against the measure in the
House. It is unclear if the Rabbi is being paid. Neither he nor the groups with which
he is affiliated with are registered to lobby nor are they registered as a client of
lobbyists. fWashington Post. 3/31/95; National Journal. 4/8/95; Clerk of the
House/Secretary of the Senate]
Guy Vander Jagt
Baker & Hosteller
Client: Star-Kist Food chairman and H J . Heinz vice chairman Joseph Bogdanovich
Former Representative Guy Vander Jagt (R-MI) has been named in lobbying registration
forms and press reports as lobbying for the loophole. Arecentfilingby Vander Jagt's Baker
& Hosteller firm (signed by Vander Jagt) lists Baker & Hostetler's client as the Los Angeles
law firm of Loeb and Loeb. However, the filing further identifies Loeb and Loeb's client as
Joseph Bogdanovich of London, England and specifically mentions the expatriate tax
loophole. Bogdanovich is the 82 year-old Chairman of Star-Kist tuna and the Vice-Chairman
of the Board of the H. J. Heinz Company. A "Leslie Powell" is identified as the Londonbased contact for Mr. Bogdanovich. fWashington Post. 3/31/95; Clerk of the
House/Secretary of the Senate Lobbying Disclosures]
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BOGDANOVICH AND THE LOOPHOLE "WINDOW":
WAS HOUSE GOP EFFORT TO DELAY EFFECTIVE DATE FOR HIM?
According to the Washington Post and the New York Times, tax expatriaze-hopefid Joseph
Bogdanovich has renounced his U.S. citizenship already. The exact dme of the renunciazion is unclear. It
is also unclear whether Bogdanovich has yet been granted citizenship in another country. However, House
Repitblicans did reportedly try to open a 'window" by delaying the provision's effective date from February
6 to March 15 and they did include a provision allowing expatriates to return to a familial homeland
without paying taxes. It is possible that Vander Jagt may have attempted to open this window for
Bogdanovich and include the provision allowing return to ones ancestral homeland. A timeline follows:
2/6/95:
President Clinton introduces his FY 1996 Budget with provision closing the expatriate
loophole effective immediately.
3/24/95:
Senate passes bill containing the February 6 provision.
Late March:
House GOPers try to delay the effective date from February 6, 1995 to March 15,
1995.
3/29/95:
Provision dropped in conference by House Republicans.
4/6/95:
Bill passes without provision.
Phil Gramm and three other Republican Senators (Larry Craig, Jon Kyi and Connie
Mack) vote against a non-binding Senate resolution supporting a provision with the
February 6 effective date.
Senator Moynihan introduces legislation closing the loophole, retroactive to the
original February 6, 1995 date. Senators Bradley, Conrad, and Graham co-sponsor
it.
4/14/95:
Washington Post reports that Joseph J. ("Joe B.") Bogdanovich (vice-chair of H.J.
Heinz Co.) renounced his U.S. citizenship, although his lobbyist, former Ways and
Means member Guy Vander Jagt (R-MI), does not know when.
6/1/95:
The Republican controlled Joint Tax Committee releases theirreporton closing the
loophole. In the index, a compendium of expatriates lists Bogdanovich as having
filed for a loss of citizenship statement on February 14, 1995 and receiving it on
March 24, 1995. The New York Times asserts Bogdanovich renounced his
citizenship in December 1994. ["Issues Presented by Proposals to Modify the Tax
Treatment of Expatriation", JTC, 6/1/95; H T L 7/10/95]
6/14/!»5:
On a party line vote, Republican Ways and Means members pass a provision taxing
expatriates for 10 years after theyrenouncetheir U.S. citizenship. Inserted in the
final version "amid some intense legislative maneuvering" is a provision that would
allow expatriates to escape the taxes if they take up citizenship in a country where he
or she, their spouse, or at least one parent was bom. Bogdanovich's father was bom
in the former Yugoslavia. [AE, 6/14/95; NYT. 7/10/95]
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BOGDANOVICH'S POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
GOP: Over $419,000
Democrats: $106,400
Unknown Affiliation:
$202,650: Candidates, PACs
$130,000: Soft Money
$ 86,750: Pete Wilson (CA)
$107,500: Candidates, PACs
$4,000: Unknown
/1993.94
• 9 donations for
:514,500.
N/A
9 donationsfor$14,500.
(Conrad, Murtha, Bob
Krueger, Breaux, Lynn
Schenk, Woflford*CA Dem.
State central cttee)
N/A
V 1991-92
» 19 donations for
12 donations for $53,000.
• $45,000 to RNCs
Republican National State
Election Committee.
7 donationsfor$30,000.
(Gephardt, DSCC, Breaux,
Lynn Schenk, DNC Soft
Money)
N/A
Election Cycle
:;83,ooo.
1
V 1989-90
< 17 donations for
•
Ji73,950.
$130,000 soft money to RNC 5 donationsfor$44,000.
(DSCC, John Kerry, Pell,
Democratic Decade)
11 donations for $28,950.
• $11,000 to the National
Republican Senatorial
Committee (NRSC).
• $10,000 to the Republican
National Finance Committee.
• $1,000tothe "Dole for
Senate '92' Campaign.
• $500 refundedfromthe
"Califomians for Senator
Pete Wilson' campaign.
1 unknown ($1,000 to
"Barbieri for
Congress*).
|
V 1987-88
< 22 donations for
»
S47,750.
5 donationsfor$8,000.
17 donationsfor$40,220.
• $21,000 to the Republican (Studds, Matsui, Gephardt,
National Finance Committee. DSCC).
• $5,000 to Bush's 'Fund
For America's Future" PAC
• $5,000 to Dole's PAC,
"Campaign America'.
• $1,500 to "Califomians
for Pete Wilson 1994'
campaign; $500 refunded.
• $1,000 to the National
Republican Senatorial
Committee.
• $750 to the 'Dole for
President Committee Inc."
N/A
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26 donations for $45,950.
• $10,000 to the Republican
National Finance Committee.
• $15,000 to Bush's "Fund
for America's Future" PAC
• $4,000 to "Dole for
Senate, Inc.'
• $3,000 to the National
Republican Senatorial
Committee.
• $2,000 to Kemp's
'Campaign for Prosperity"
PAC.
• $1,750 to the National
Republican Congressional
Committee.
• $1,000 to Paul Weyrich's
"Free Congress PAC".
• $1,000 to 'Califomians
for Senator Pete Wilson*.
$500 refunded.
5 donations for $4,500.
• $2,000 to Coehlo's
"Valley Education Fund".
2 unknowns for
$1,500. ($1,000 to
"California Unity
Fund"; $500 to "Jones
for Congress
ComraitteO.
/ 1983-84
24 donations for
$32,500 (plus $1,000
earmarked).
19 donationsfor$28,500.
• $10,000 to the Republican
National Finance Committee.
• $4,500 to tbe National
Republican Senatorial
Committee; $]70 returned.
• $3,000 to the "Los
Angeles '84 Dinner
Committee".
• $3,500 Republican
National Independent
Expenditure Committee.
• $1,000 to "Califomians
for Senator Pete Wilson"
• $500 to "Lungren for
Congress'
4 donations for $3,000.
("Cranston for President";
Gephardt; Democrat
Congressional Dinner
Committee; "Hollings for
President').
1 unknownfor$1,000
('Lungren for
Congress*).
198142
• 4 donations for
$3,900.
3 donationsfor$3,000.
• $1,000 to the 'Pete
WilsonforU.S. Senate'
campaign.
1 donation for $900.
N/A
197940
• 4 donations for
53,000.
1 donation for $1,000.
2 donationsfor$1,500.
1 unknown ($500 to
"Citizens for
Congressman John M.
Muiphy").
1971-72
• Donated between $2,000
and $25,000 to Nixon's reelection campaign. fNYT11/4/72]
N/A
N/A
• 1985-86
• 33 donations for
552,450.
PLUS: Gave to the
Reagan/Bush
Inaugural. [NYT,
1/12/85]
[Sources: Federal Election Commission; CenterforPublic Integrity; California Campaign Finance Records]
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GOP POWER ABUSE ALARMING
"There i s a e f f o r t here t o rush t h e procedure, t o c u t o f f t h e
m i n o r i t y ' s r i g h t t o v o t e a n d t o s p e a k a n d t o make a m e n d m e n t s ...
and t h e r e ' s an e f f o r t here t o r e a l l y a l l o w s p e c i a l i n t e r e s t s t o
run
f r e e i n t h i s p l a c e t h a t I ' v e never seen b e f o r e . "
- - Democratic Leader R i c h a r d Gephardt
REPUBLICAN ABUSE OF POWER ALARMING.
Alarm i s growing over
the
R e p u b l i c a n m a ] o r i t y ' s a g g r e s s i v e abuse o f power.
Republicans
h a v e r o u t i n e l y m a n i p u l a t e d House r u l e s t o r a m l e g i s l a t i o n t h r o u g h
c o m m i t t e e w i t h o u t t h e f u l l d e b a t e t h a t t h e i r i d e a s demand.
This
w e e k , t w o members -- who w e r e p r e s e n t on t h e H o u s e f l o o r -- w e r e
d e n i e d t h e r i g h t t o v o t e s o t h e GOP l e a d e r s h i p c o u l d p r e v a i l o n a
close vote.
W h i l e t h e GOP g r a b b e d a n i n i t i a l v i c t o r y b y a s i n g l e
v o t e , t h e y l o s t a f t e r D e m o c r a t s demanded a s e c o n d v o t e t h e
f o l l o w i n g day.
The c o n s i s t e n t p a t t e r n o f R e p u b l i c a n abuse
r e p r e s e n t s a m i s u s e o f power u n r i v a l e d i n t h e r e c e n t h i s t o r y o f
the
House.
*
RUBBER STAMPS ISSUED TO REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN.
R e p u b l i c a n c h a i r m e n o f c o m m i t t e e s h a v e made u n p r e c e d e n t e d
use o f
t h e i r power t o d i s c o u r a g e a t h o r o u g h exchange o f i d e a s a n d v i e w s .
In t h e r u s h t o f u l f i l l t h e mandate t h e y have been g i v e n by t h e i r
l e a d e r s h i p , R e p u b l i c a n s have m a n i p u l a t e d t h e r u l e s t o c l o s e
d e b a t e a n d l i m i t amendments.
The r e s u l t ?
Many v o i c e s a r e n e v e r
heard and m i l l i o n s o f Americans are being s y s t e m a t i c a l l y
d i s e n f r a n c h i s e d i n the e f f o r t t o rubber-stamp
the ideas o f the
GOP l e a d e r s h i p .
*
WHO'S WATCHING THE SPECIAL INTERESTS L O B B Y I S T S ? ^ - P a i d
l o b b y i s t s f o r s p e c i a l i n t e r e s t s have been g i v e n t h e r u n ^ o f t h e
House s i n c e s J a n u a r y .
A c c o r d i n g t o a new S p e c i a l R e p o r t b y Nthe
Democ r a t l c StD'dy—Gnoup.,. l o b b y i s t s a r e I d l e t a t l n g — t h e — wopd-irTg o f
b i l l s , conducting o f f i c i a l s t a f f b r i e f i n g s , a d v i s i n g committee
c o u n s e l s d u r i n g b i l l mark-ups, d r a f t i n g committee r e p o r t s , and
even s i t t i n g a t t h e d a i s i n s e a t s r e s e r v e d f o r R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s
during hearings."
Moreover, R e p u b l i c a n s have c o n s i s t e n t l y
b l o c k e d e f f o r t s t o p a s s a b a n on g i f t s t o Members o f C o n g r e s s
f r o m t h e s e same l o b b y i s t s .
The r e d c a r p e t t r e a t m e n t a f f o r d e d
t h e s e r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s o f s p e c i a l i n t e r e s t s , who h a v e n o d i r e c t
a c c o u n t a b i l i t y t othe public, i s f r i g h t e n i n g .
REPUBLICAN "SANTA'S L I S T " SUGGESTS P O L I T I C A L BLACKMAIL.
A c c o r d i n g t o p u b l i s h e d r e p o r t s , R e p u b l i c a n s have begun t o c r e a t e
a p o l i t i c a l b l a c k l i s t o f PACs.
PAC c o n t r i b u t i o n s a r e b e i n g
o f f i c i a l l y t r a c k e d a n d a c c e s s g r a n t e d based on t h e l e v e l o f
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Richard A. Gephardt
Voice (202) 225-0100
Tax (202)225-7414
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<p>Michael Waldman was Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting from 1995-1999. His responsibilities were writing and editing nearly 2,000 speeches, which included four State of the Union speeches and two Inaugural Addresses. From 1993 -1995 he served as Special Assistant to the President for Policy Coordination.</p>
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