From: sug6@usite-next.uchicago.edu (Patrick Sugent)
Subject: Re: Republican Controlled Congress
Organization: University of Chicago
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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 03:49:08 GMT


  I was asked to clarify an earlier point I made regarding the top
100 spenders in congress.  The following is the source of my
information.  Please let me know if you find any typos so that
I may correct my copy.


Pat

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   This is from an article I clipped in the Wall Street Journal.
I don't remember the exact date.


             "The Billions Congress Wants to Spend"

     Congress last week extended its own license to spend when it failed to
   pass a constitutional amendment o balance the budget.  Why did Congress
   reject this measure?  Research by the National Taxpayers Union
   Foundation, the research arm of the anti-tax lobby, yields one
   age-old answer:  Congress was protecting interest-group wish lists.

     The foundation ran up the numbers and found that the opponents of a
   balanced budget amendment are also sponsors of legislation that would 
   cost the taxpayers the most money.  Congressmen who voted for the
   balanced budget amendment are sponsoring legislation that would increase
   spending by around $23 billion; members who opposed the amendment currently
   sponsor legislation that would cost the taxpayer about an additional
   $137 billion.  The foundation also produced a list of the 100 congressmen
   and women who would spend the most (as of April 5, 1992).  Only
   16 of them supported the amendment.  We reprint the list here,
   with rankings in billions of dollars.



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								    net cost of
					increases	decreases   projects
Rank	Member				sponsored	sponsored   sponsored

1	Boxer, Barbara    (D,CA)	$406		$-1.26		$405
2	Johnston, Harry   (D,FL)	$370		$-0.83		$370
3	Towns, Ed.        (D,NY)	$347		$-0.38		$347
4	Norton, Eleanor   (D,DC)	$347		$-1.43		$345
5	Hayes, Charles    (D,IL)	$344		$-0.11		$344
6	Martinez, Matthew (D,CA)	$343		$-0.49		$343
7	Owens, Major R.   (D,NY)	$341		$-0.16		$341
8	Savage, Gus       (D,IL)	$339		$-0.02		$339
9	Frank, Barney     (D,MA)	$341		$-2.49		$339
10	Dymally, Mervyn M.(D,CA)	$337		$-0.02		$337
11	Conyers Jr., John (D,MI)	$327		$-0.31		$327
12	Rangel, Charles B.(D,NY)	$332		$-5.50		$326
13	Collins, Barbara  (D,MI)	$324		$-0.08		$324
14	Weiss, Ted        (D,NY)	$324		$-0.46		$324
15	Ford, Harold      (D,TN)	$323		$-0.16		$323
16	Clay, William L.  (D,MO)	$319		$-0.08		$318
17	Dellums, Ronald V.(D,CA)	$316		$-0.12		$316
18	Collins, Cardiss  (D,IL)	$316		$-0.38		$315
19	Mfume, Kweisi     (D,MD)	$309		$-0.38		$309
20	Payne, Donald     (D,NJ)	$307		$-0.03		$307
21	Mink, Patsy       (D,NJ)	$304		$-0.39		$303
22	Kleczka, Gerald D.(D,NY)	$303		$-0.07		$303
23	Serrano, Jose     (D,NY)	$302		$-0.06		$302
24	Rahall II, Nick J.(D,WV)	$300		$-0.16		$300
25	Kolter, Joseph P. (D,PA)	$301		$-1.75		$299
26	Pelosi, Nancy     (D,CA)	$299		$-0.24		$299
27	Flake, Floyd      (D,NY)	$298		$-0.09		$298
28	Abercrombie, Neil (D,HI)	$298		$-0.72		$297
29	Foglietta, Thomas (D,PA)	$294		$-0.08		$294
30	Kildee, Dale E.   (D,MI)	$293		$-1.85		$291
31	Markey, Edward    (D,MA)	$290		$-0.47		$290
32	McNulty, Michael  (D,NY)	$291		$-1.54		$289
33	Poshard, Glenn    (D,IL)	$289		$-0.09		$289
34	Brown, Jr. George (D,CA)	$290		$-3.00		$287
35	Hochbrueckner, G. (D,NY)	$286		$-0.15		$286
36	Oberstar, James   (D,MN)	$288		$-2.07		$286
37	Evans, Lane       (D,IL)	$288		$-2.80		$286
38	Lipinski, William (D,IL)	$287		$-1.25		$286
39	Yates, Sidney R.  (D,IL)	$286		$-0.01		$286
40	Lefalce, John J.  (D,NY)	$287		$-2.01		$285
41	Feighan, Edward F.(D,OH)	$281		$-0.14		$281
42	Scheuer, James H. (D,NY)	$282		$-0.61		$281
43	Annunzio, Frank   (D,IL)	$279		$-0.15		$279
44	Dwyer, Bernard J. (D,NJ)	$283		$-4.54		$279
45	Ravenel, Arthur   (R,SC)	$279		$-1.12		$278
46	Berman, Howard    (D,CA)	$280		$-1.99		$278
47 	Nowak, Henry      (D,NY)	$278		$-0.38		$277
48	Miller, George    (D,CA)	$279		$-2.16		$277
49	Lewis, John       (D,GA)	$276		$-0.16		$276
50	Mavroules,Nicholas(D,MA)	$274		$-0.67		$273
51	Moody, Jim        (D,WI)	$273		$-0.32		$273
52	Studds, Gerry E.  (D,MA)	$273		$-0.52		$273
53	Traxler, Bob      (D,MI)	$272		$-0.08		$272
54	Olver, John W.    (D,MA)	$272		$ 0.00		$272
55	Edwards, Don      (D,CA)	$272		$-0.03		$272
56	McDermott, Jim    (D,WA)	$272		$-0.55		$271
57	Vento, Bruce F.   (D.MN)	$271		$-0.41		$270
58	Sangmeister, G.   (D,IL)	$270		$-0.09		$270
59	Downey, Thomas    (D,NY)	$270		$-0.07		$270
60	Dicks, Norman     (D,WA)	$270		$-0.31		$270
61	Schumer, Charles  (D,NY)	$269		$-0.01		$269
62	Solarz, Stephen   (D,NY)	$268		$-0.01		$268
63	Coyne, William    (D,PA)	$267		$-0.08		$267
64	Gejdenson, Sam    (D,CT)	$267		$-1.64		$265
65	Russo, Marty      (D,IL)	$263		$ 0.00		$263
66	Kennedy, Joseph   (D,MA)	$262		$-0.01		$263
67	Faleomavaega, Eni (D,AS)	$264		$-1.44		$262
68	Beilenson, Anthony(D,CA)	$261		$-0.39		$261
69	Swift, AL         (D,WA)	$259		$-0.31		$259
70	Bustamante, Albert(D,TX)	$258		$-0.59		$258
71	Atkins, Chester   (D,MA)	$261		$-4.51		$257
72	Stark, Fortney    (D,CA)	$218		$-0.39		$218
73	Peterson, Pete    (D,FL)	$214		$-1.79		$212
74	Tallon, Robin     (D,SC)	$211		$-0.08		$211
75	Gibbons, Sam      (D,FL)	$201		$-0.01		$201
76	Lehman, William   (D,FL)	$187		$-0.01		$187
77	Torres, Esteban E.(D,CA)	$154		$-0.45		$153
78	Stokes, Louis     (D,OH)	$153		$-0.08		$153
79	Staggers, Harley  (D,WV)	$150		$-0.13		$150
80	Oakar, Mary Rose  (D,OH)	$147		$-0.01		$147
81	Bonior, David     (D,MI)	$145		$-3.08		$142
82	Traficant, James  (D,OH)	$141		$-0.59		$140
83	Jefferson, William(D,LA)	$ 93		$-0.18		$ 93
84	Ackerman, Gary    (D,NY)	$ 84		$-1.27		$ 83
85	De Lugo, Ron      (D,VI)	$ 78		$-3.14		$ 75
86	Engel, Eliot      (D,NY)	$ 71		$-0.61		$ 71
87	Gephardt, Richard (D,MO)	$ 69		$ 0.00		$ 69
88	Johnson, Tim      (D,SD)	$ 64		$-0.46		$ 63
89	Emerson, Bill     (R,MO)	$ 60		$-3.78		$ 57
90	Smith, Christopher(R,NJ)	$ 52		$ 0.00		$ 52
91	Dingell, John     (D,MI)	$ 53		$-1.59		$ 52
92	Quillen, James    (R,TM)	$ 49		$-0.68		$ 49
93	Gonzalez, Henry   (D,TX)	$ 46		$-0.07		$ 46
94	Wilson, Charles   (D,TX)	$ 47		$-1.05		$ 46
95	Williams, Pat     (D,MT)	$ 46		$-0.19		$ 46
96	Sanders, Bernie   (I,VT)	$ 45		$-0.21		$ 45
97	Unsoeld, Jolene   (D,WA)	$ 44		$-0.74		$ 44
98	Waxman, Henry     (D,CA)	$ 43		$-0.01		$ 43
99	Roe, Robert       (D,NJ)	$ 44		$-2.04		$ 42
100	Kaptur, Marcy     (D,OH)	$ 42		$-0.54		$ 42


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