Letter From a Whig
Slemp, C. Bascom
"Letter From a Whig" Home for Re-Election (Washington)—CONGRESS WAS finally able to recess for the November elections on October 17, giving our national legislators precious little time to hit the campaign trail back...
...But despite this record the Ford Administration is not held in particularly high esteem on either side of the political aisle in the nation's capital...
...fourteen will have to be heterosexual and twohomosexual (one of these to be a lesbian...
...eight must be juvenile, four mature, and four senile...
...One hundred twenty-three Congressmen received a rating of 0 percent, thereby earning the not-so-sought-after "Most Inflationary Award...
...Although few members of Congress had much to look forward to in their districts, the delay in the recess pleased no one...
...and one, in alphabetical rotation, Buddhist, Mormon, and Muslim...
...Senate Major-ity Leader Mike Mansfield (D.—Mont...
...one Chicano (or Chicana on alternate elections...
...During Congressional recesses committee staffs (although not Congressional offices) usually go on a ten-to-four schedule, and staffers also like to catch up on their long-accumulated IOU "freebie-luncheons" from Washington's illustrious lobby corps...
...Of the latter, eight will have to be men and eight women...
...Beter claims that Public Law 93-110, passed September 21, 1973, took the gold away from the Fed and it was sold to David Rockefeller at $42.22 per ounce, although worth over $150...
...Rees said the Connecticut State Taxpayers Association has previously concentrated on state issues, but that the national survey was prompted by the "pressing need to do something about inflation on a national level...
...military aid to Turkey had added an amendment to a routine resolution allowing for continuing appropriations for various Federal agencies which would have cut off the U.S...
...The language finally accepted by the White House (reluctantly) permits the United States to continue its military aid to Turkey until December 10, provided that Turkey does not ship any additional arms to Cyprus during the interim period...
...Beter's fantastic charge, which no one would listen to if Watergate hadn't proven that conspiracies and dirty work are often afoot at the highest levels has resulted already in a Congressional investigation...
...Nevertheless, there are a number of appropriations bills pending before Congress which require action, and the Rockefeller confirmation hearings have yet to be completed...
...Now maybe other citizens across the Nation can act on these facts...
...He says that the gold has been flown to Holland, which is considered safer than America because of the tight control over the little country exercised by Queen Juliana and the Rockefellers' Bilderberg front man, H.R.H...
...Any rumors to the contrary, most of the controversial legislation before the Ninety-third Congress will be carried over to the new Congress, mainly because of the gains the Democrats expect to make in the elections...
...The Administration had opposed the Congressionally mandated cutoff, arguing that it would undermine the U.S...
...Holland is virtually 'owned' by Juliana, the richest women [sic] in the world even though the Royal Dutch Shell Co...
...As individual citizens who are suffering because of irresponsible Congressional actions, we decided to take the initiative in providing the hard, cold facts on inflation...
...But along with the proposals for national health insurance, these will be high priority items for the Ninety-fourth Congress...
...Thirty-six Senators also earned the "Most Inflationary Award" by scoring under 10 percent on this index...
...has said that Congress will remain in session until it expires on January 3, 1975...
...As part of our continuing effort to keep our readers aware of the latest conspiracies, this story deserves some quotation...
...Opponents of U.S...
...Since assuming the Presidency in August Ford has vetoed five bills, only one of which—the railroad retirement bill —Congress has been able to override...
...There is also little chance that the already defeated no-fault insurance bill and the consumer protection bill (called by some the National Agency to Disrupt Economic Rights—NADER) will be revived...
...Gold Heist According to the "Washington Observer" newsletter, Dr...
...Prince Bernhard...
...Grover Rees, the Executive Director of the Taxpayers Association, said the "Spendingand Inflation Index" is the first roll-call vote analysis strictly limited to Federal spending issues...
...Ford has not been the salvation the GOP had hoped for...
...one Jewish, ten Protestant, four Roman Catholic...
...Unable to override the veto twice, Congress and the White House agreed to a last-minute frantic compromise...
...Congress' Most Inflationary Because of Congress' continuing inability to offer any substantive proposals to combat "Public Enemy Number One," inflation, the Connecticut State Taxpayers Association (a nonpartisan citizens lobbying group) has come up with a scale to measure "excessive wasteful or nonessential federal spending, of the sort that produces deficits and runaway inflation...
...one person to be, in alphabetical rotation, Amerindian, Asian, and Eskimo...
...The $10 billion represents approximately two-thirds of this year's federal budget deficit...
...Peter David Beter claims that the gold from Fort Knox has been stolen by David Rockefeller...
...is actually controlled by the Rockefellers...
...Congressional Sociological Balance In the spirit of the affirmative action notions guiding federal judges and bureaucrats in their search for acceptable sociological compositions, the following "perfect" formula for a Congressional caucus was recently devised by a Capitol Hill aide: "A proper Sociological Caucus should contain: two blacks (one man, one woman...
...But the Ninety-third Congress is apparently not going to have any such luck...
...The most inflationary single state Congressional delegation was Connecticut's...
...it contrasts with the ratings of special interest groups which cover a variety of issues...
...Congress' Unfinished Business Most Congressional staffers, and indeed many legislators, had hoped that Congress would not have to come back for a long session after the November elections...
...Republicans in particular are concerned with what political commentator Kevin Phillips recently called the "massive crisis of leadership and government by a clique of second-rate incompetents...
...Indeed, it has long been overdue and it is praiseworthy that Congress can illustrate the appropriate leadership...
...The Spending and Inflation Index covers thirty votes, among them votes for public works projects, the Amtrak railroad program, foreign aid, UN programs, and mass transit operating subsidies...
...The delay in the recess was the result of a stalemate between Congress and the White House over the question of U.S...
...The much-talked-about trade bill will probably not be brought to the floor of Congress for a vote before next June...
...Home for Re-Election (Washington)—CONGRESS WAS finally able to recess for the November elections on October 17, giving our national legislators precious little time to hit the campaign trail back home...
...position to secure a negotiated settlement between the Greeks and Turks on the Cyprus question...
...and sixteen white Anglos...
...Disagreement between both houses of Congress, and disagreement between Congress and the Executive branch, as well as the extensive floor battles that will accompany the legislation, are the reasons given for the delay...
...Four of the state's six Representatives, including Republican Bob Steele and Democrat Ella Grasso (both candidates for that state's governorship), and Democrat Senator Abraham Ribicoff earned the award...
...Because of that amendment President Ford twice vetoed within forty-eight hours what ordinarily would have been only a stopgap funding bill...
...A Congressman who voted for every spending measure listed in the Index favored over $10 billion in what the Taxpayers Association regards as excessive inflationary spending...
...military aid to Turkey...
...A lame duck Congress might also be inclined to vote for the politically sensitive Congressional and super-grade civil service pay raises...
...and two must be intelligent, ten mediocre, and four stupid.' There can be no doubt that the Ninety-fourth Congress will have the appropriate membership necessary to organize its caucuses along the lines of this affirmative action proposal...
...fifteen will have to be sighted and one blind...
Vol. 8 • January 1975 • No. 4
