Bryan L. Dorgan Quotes
It's not difficult for a business to launch thousands of pieces of mail on Capitol Hill, and that scares ... everyone.
Bryan L. Dorgan, U. S. Congressman and Senator (Democrat, ND), Quoted in William Greider, Who Will Tell The People, 1992
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Abramoff had bribed over 100 Congressional offices by a combination of campaign donations, paid golf junkets all over the world, free elegant meals at his own fancy Washington Restaurant, free tickets for the Congressmen, their staffs and their major constituents, to Concerts and sporting events including his own Skyboxes, and promises of future employment at very high salaries. Ironically, we was convicted of cheating some of his lobbying clients and did a jail term, but his “bribery” was technically usually legal. In addition to Abramoff, only one Congressman was charged and convicted of corruption, when many if not most had engaged in these corrupt practices. Congress makes the rules with loopholes so that what is bribery and corruption in any other setting is often not against the law if Congress is involved.
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Synar was one of the members of Congress that finally mounted the first agenda which grew steadily and once the American public realized that cigarettes was by far the largest preventable cause of death of Americans. Even after all the effort and improvement, the tobacco companies facilitated over 300,000 deaths a year. See {637256} for the responsibility of the tobacco companies.
