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- LETTERS, Page 8Congressional Ethics
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- Why is everyone so surprised by the ethics problems of Jim
- Wright, Tony Coelho & Co. (NATION, June 12). Self-interest
- dictates that Congressmen will accept honorariums, free travel,
- PAC funds and gifts as long as they are legal. Since more than
- 90% of all incumbent members of Congress are re-elected, logic
- suggests that the majority of Americans are quite happy with the
- quality of the Congress.
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- Kenneth Wichman Cincinnati
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- If Newt Gingrich is so concerned about three decades of
- Democratic dominance of Congress, my advice to him is to
- recognize that the Democratic majority was duly elected. He
- should start figuring out how (if it is possible) to make the
- Republican Party more responsive to the needs of middle- and
- lower-class voters.
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- Eric Newman Hackensack, N.J.
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- What Wright calls "mindless cannibalism" is more like
- cancer surgery. The question is, Did they get it all?
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- William G. Menzel Eau Claire, Wis.
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