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...
...is actually controlled by the Rockefellers...
...Now maybe other citizens across the Nation can act on these facts...
...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...
...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...
...and sixteen white Anglos...
...The $10 billion represents approximately two-thirds of this year's federal budget deficit...
...The most inflationary single state Congressional delegation was Connecticut's...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...One hundred twenty-three Congressmen received a rating of 0 percent, thereby earning the not-so-sought-after "Most Inflationary Award...
...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...
...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...
...Gold Heist According to the "Washington Observer" newsletter, Dr...
...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...
...But along with the proposals for national health insurance, these will be high priority items for the Ninety-fourth Congress...
...it contrasts with the ratings of special interest groups which cover a variety of issues...
...and one, in alphabetical rotation, Buddhist, Mormon, and Muslim...
...But the Ninety-third Congress is apparently not going to have any such luck...
...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...
...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...
...Thirty-six Senators also earned the "Most Inflationary Award" by scoring under 10 percent on this index...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...eight must be juvenile, four mature, and four senile...
...The Administration had opposed the Congressionally mandated cutoff, arguing that it would undermine the U.S...
...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...
...Nevertheless, there are a number of appropriations bills pending before Congress which require action, and the Rockefeller confirmation hearings have yet to be completed...
...A lame duck Congress might also be inclined to vote for the politically sensitive Congressional and super-grade civil service pay raises...
...fourteen will have to be heterosexual and twohomosexual (one of these to be a lesbian...
...Opponents of U.S...
...position to secure a negotiated settlement between the Greeks and Turks on the Cyprus question...
...Senate Major-ity Leader Mike Mansfield (D.—Mont...
...military aid to Turkey...
...Because of that amendment President Ford twice vetoed within forty-eight hours what ordinarily would have been only a stopgap funding bill...
...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...
...Ford has not been the salvation the GOP had hoped for...
...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...
...has said that Congress will remain in session until it expires on January 3, 1975...
...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 Chicano (or Chicana on alternate elections...
...one Jewish, ten Protestant, four Roman Catholic...
...Indeed, it has long been overdue and it is praiseworthy that Congress can illustrate the appropriate leadership...
...The delay in the recess was the result of a stalemate between Congress and the White House over the question of U.S...
...one person to be, in alphabetical rotation, Amerindian, Asian, and Eskimo...
...Unable to override the veto twice, Congress and the White House agreed to a last-minute frantic compromise...
...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...
...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...
...Peter David Beter claims that the gold from Fort Knox has been stolen by David Rockefeller...
...Of the latter, eight will have to be men and eight women...
...Prince Bernhard...
...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...
...The much-talked-about trade bill will probably not be brought to the floor of Congress for a vote before next June...
...Although few members of Congress had much to look forward to in their districts, the delay in the recess pleased no one...
...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...
...As part of our continuing effort to keep our readers aware of the latest conspiracies, this story deserves some quotation...
...fifteen will have to be sighted and one blind...
...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...
...Holland is virtually 'owned' by Juliana, the richest women [sic] in the world even though the Royal Dutch Shell Co...
Vol. 8 • January 1975 • No. 4
