Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits and Outrages Congress in Hiding After all its internal reforms and gestures toward open government, Congress actually held the same percentage of closed hearings in 1971 as it...
...Public Works, 50 per cent...
...Senator Thurmond received this snapshot from his South Carolina campaign manager who wanted him to see how much work needs to be done before the opening...
...Foreign Relations, 43 per cent...
...Capitalism is Cheaper Sperry Rand had made shell casings under a costplus contract since 1951, pulling in $17 million on a $50,000 initial investment...
...The Senate Agriculture Committee, for some unknown reason, still held 33 per cent of its meetings behind closed doors in 1971...
...But the big costly items we can’t expect to be donated...
...Responding to increased public interest in the military, the Senate Armed Services Committee went from 56 per cent secrecy in 1969 to 79 per cent in 1971...
...As you can see from the photo...
...the first order of business is to sweep, mop and paint our headquarters...
...They have borrowed brooms and mops and even supplied the paint and brushes...
...If you are concerned and would like to help one of the great conservative U. S. Senators, then you will be just as anxious as we are to get the headquarters operating...
...the situation facing us...
...things like desks, chairs, tables, telephones and so on...
...Rules and Administration, 68 per cent...
...Buy a Lightbulb for Strom The following letter to potential campaign contributors was enclosed with this snapshot of Senator Strom Thurmond’s campaign office at 131 7 Lady Street, Columbia, South Carolina: . . . It’s been empty like this for several days now because we don’t have the money to clean it up and put in desks, chairs, tables and phones...
...Tidbits and Outrages Congress in Hiding After all its internal reforms and gestures toward open government, Congress actually held the same percentage of closed hearings in 1971 as it did in 1969-according to a Congressional Quarterly study...
...Recently, the Army switched to a competitively bid contract, and Sperry suddenly decided that it could make each 155 mm casing for $6.49 less, or 20 per cent cheaper, than before...
...On the House side: Appropriations, 92 per cent...
...Administration, 84 per cent...
...To the Man Who Brought You Corvair The National Motor Vehicle Safety Advisors Council has given GM President Edward Cole its first award for “outstanding contribution to automotive safety...
...One wonders how low the Pentagon budget would be even if it kept all its programs and merely adopted the old-fashioned bidding system for everything...
...Other Senate committees, and the percentage of secret hearings they held last year include: Finance, 47 per cent...
...When the Senator showed it to me, I told him I would send it to you so you could see...
...and Standards of Official Conduct, 93 per cent...
...With your maximum donation of $60.00, or whatever amount you send, we will have this place looking spic and span in a few days, and we can really get our volunteers working full-time...
...Cole, known as the father of the Corvair, heads a company that has recalled over 17.7 million automobiles, or 54 per cent of its total production, for safety defects since 1966...
...We have volunteers working like beavers right now...
...Ford had called in 7.5 million, or 40 per cent...
...Chrysler, 1.2 million, or 16 per cent...
Vol. 4 • September 1972 • No. 7
