European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday april 23, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 11some lawmakers mighty mighty grateful Washington a there is a huge sigh of Relief emanating from the Capitol and its coming from a group proud for once to be in a minority those who did no to write bad checks on accounts at the former House Bank. A you have to be mighty mighty grateful a said House Republican Leader Robert h. Michel of Illinois the highest ranking member of the leadership in either party to have escaped unscathed. A a it a certainly one less significant problem to have to Deal with the release of remaining bad Check writers 269 current House members a three fifths of the membership a were sent scrambling to apologize defend explain and mollify. For the 171 lawmakers who got a clean Bill of health it was cause for quiet Celebration. They Are out of the darkest widest political Shadow to fall on Capitol Hill in decades. A there was tremendous Relief on the part of my staff a said Republican rep. Jerry Lewis. Community leaders in his Southern California District seem Well aware he was not caught up in the scandal he said. A that Means your message on the is sues the priorities More easily gets through a Lewis said. A you can talk about other he contrasted his situation to that of California gop colleague Bill Lowery who endured a constituent meeting in which for 30 minutes All questions were about the House Bank. Lowery who wrote 300 bad checks is retiring from Congress. Some lawmakers were taking pains to make sure voters know of their official a a clean status a rep. E. Thomas Coleman r-mo., sent a mass mailing to constituents proclaiming a i have never bounced a Check in my Coleman who faces a Tough re election race this fall also wrote a i did no to think it was a Good idea to put my checking account in a Bank run by a rep. Mel Levine running for the democratic Senate nomination in California has been airing television spots that proclaim a my accounts at a local Bank like a new York Republican Norman f. Lent issued a news release with the headline a no rubber checks Here a a a it a certainly not going to Hurt in a re election situation a Lent said in an interview. Such overt pitches make Good political sense said democratic pollster Alan be Crest who handles races for Many House candidates. Being clean on the Check Issue a allows you to push off the image of the institution a Secrest said something that is critical for incumbents when Public disdain is running High. A a it a not so much that voters characterize you As a Saint but it enables you to distinguish yourself from the pack which is a precious political commodity in this environment a he said. A Wall Street journal Abc news poll gave new evidence of the alienation Between voters and their government. Some 78 percent surveyed april 11-14, said they disapprove of the Job Congress is doing. And half agreed with the statement that a Congress As an institution is two thirds of the Sample said 50 or More overdraft checks would be a Strong reason to vote against a House incumbent. And 82 percent of the 1,001 registered voters questioned blamed both republicans and democrats equally for the scandal. One lawmaker said he had Felt smug about being above the controversy. But rep. Amo Houghton r-n.y., said that feeling has evaporated because of the damage the scandal has done to the House. A the Saddest of All spectacles is to see the greatest legislative body in the world in total disarray Quot Houghton said in a statement. He challenged colleagues and voters to use the crisis to Force change and to extract a pledge to Deal with americans deficit problem. It remains unclear just what the partisan Impact of the scandal will be but some republicans say it May be More important for them to be free of bad checks than for democrats. That they theorize is because Republican voters take such matters of financial propriety More seriously. A in my District As conservative As it is just a couple of bad checks would have been hard to Deal with a Michel said. In some democratic districts a it probably wont mean a Hoot a he said. A if you re from a Republican District White upper Middle class people will not tolerate this from their elected officials a Lent said. A i feel somewhat sorry for my colleagues who May have had 10 or 12 of members who wrote Over Here is a list of House members whose names were released last week for writing overdrafts at the House Bank. The list includes the names of the a a abusers identified by the House ethics committee on april 1. Abusers last names Are in capital letters. Following the name is the party and the number of checks. American Samoa eni . Fale Mavaega d 63 Alabama Tom Belll d 4 Sonny Callahan r 9 Robert e. Cramer d 11 Alaska Don Young r 57 Arizona John j. Rhodes r 32 Arkansas Bill Alexander d 487 Beryl Anthony d 109 John Paul Hammer Schmidt r 224 Ray Thornton d 1 California Glenn Anderson d Anthony c. Wellenson d Howard l Berman d Barbara Boxer d George e. Brown d Tom Campbell. R Gary Condit d Randy Cunningham r William e. Dannemeyer r Ronald v. De hums d Mervyn m. Dymally 0 Don Edwards d Elton Duncan Hunter r Robert j. Lagomarsino r Richard h. Lehman d Bill Lowery r Matthew g. Martinez d Robert t. Matsu d George Miller d Norman y. Moneta r Ron Packard r Leon e. Panetta d Nancy Poloai d Frank d. Riggs r Dana Rohrabacher r Edward r. Roybal d Fortney Pete Stark d William m. Thomas r Maxine Waters d Henry a. Waxman d Colorado Joei Hestoy. R Dan Schaefer r Patricia Schroeder d David e. Skaggs d Connecticut 3 5 67 143 26 4 4 1 26 851 1 13 5 399 3 10 300 19 25 99 3 4 12 28 3 8 11 64 119 5 434 Gary a. Franks r Sam Gejdenson d Nancy l Johnson r Barbara b. Kennelty d Christopher Shays r Delaware 7 51 2 60 18 Thomas r. Carper d 3 Florida Jim Bacchus d 3 Charles e. Bennett d 4 Dante b. Fescella d 1 Earl Hutto d 1 Andy Ireland r 38 Harry Johnston d 1 Tom Lewis r 8 Lawrence j. Smith d 161 Cliff steams r 9 Georgia Doug or. Barnard. D 30 George Darden d 35 Newt Gingrich r Charles Hatcher d 22 819 Ben Jones d 7 John Lewis d 125 Richard Ray d 1 Lindsay Thomas d 6 Guam Ben Blaz r 36 Idaho Richard h. Stallings d 8 Illinois Terry l. Bruce d 2 Vardiss Collins d 18 Jerry costello d 1 Richard j. Durbin d 12 Lane Evans d 9 Charles a. Hayes. D Henry j. Hyde r William o. Lipin ski d John Edward Porter r Marty Russo d Gus Savage d Sidney r. Yates d Indiana Andrew Jacobs d Jim Jontz d Jill Long d Frank Mccloskey d John t. Myers r \ so Phillip r. Iowa Sharp d 3 6 5 57 716 2 2 1 4 4 4 1 4 21 65 61 120 Jim Utah foot r David r. Nagle d Neal Smith d Kansas 105 4 2 Dan Glickman d 105 Pat Roberts r 4 Jim Slattery d 50 Kentucky Larry j. Hopkins r 83 Carroll Hubbard d 152 Carl c. Perkins d 514 Louisiana Richard h. Baker r 6 Clyde c. Holloway r 10 Jerry Huckaby d William j. Jefferson d . Tauzin d Maine 88 8 5 Olympia j. Snowe r 1 Massachusetts Cheater Atkins d 127 Brian j. Donnelly d Joseph d. Early d 70 140 Edward j. Mai key d 92 Nicholes Mavroules d 1 John Joseph Moakley d 90 Richard e. Neal a 87 Gerry e. Studds d 10 Maryland Beverly b. Byron d Steny h. Hoyer d 6 3 Weisi Mfume d 12 Michigan David Bonlore d 76 Dave Camp r 6 Bob Carr d 1 John or. Conyers d 273 Robert w. Davis r 878 John d. Dongell d 48 William d. Ford d 6 Paul b. Henry r 20 Dennis m. Hertel d 547 Dale e. Kildee d 100 Carl d. Pursell r 17 Bob Traxler d 201 Frederick s. Upton r 1 Howard Wolpe d 8 Minnesota James l. Oberstar d 2 Timothy j. Penny d 7 Jim Ramstad r 5 Gerry Sikorski d 897 Bruce f. Vento d 3 Vin Weber r 125 Mississippi Mike Espy d 191 Mike Parker d 13 Gene Taylor d 14 Missouri William l Clay d 328 Bill Emerson r 6 Richard a. Gephardt d 28 Joan Kelly Horn d 1 Ike Skelton d 9 Harold l Volkmer d 1 Alan wheat d 86 Montana Ron Marie Nee r 20 Pat Williams d 66 North Carolina Walter b. Jones d 63 h. Martin Lancaster d 5 j. Alex Mcmillan r 4 Stephen l. Neal d 7 David e. Price. D 8 Tim Valentine d 5 North Dakota Byron l Dorgan d new Hampshire 96 new Jersey Bernard j. Dwyer d 10 Dean a. Gano r 2 Donald m. Payne d 6 Matthew j. Rinaldo r 8 Robert a. Roe d 6 Marge Roukema r Jim Saxton r 5 2 Robert q. Torricelli d 27 new Mexico Bill Richardson d 6 Steven Schloff r 1 new York Gary l Ackerman d 111 Sherwood l Boehlert r 1 Thomas j. Downey d 151 Eliot l. Engel d 21 Floyd h. Flake d 3 Bill Green r 10 George j. Hochbrueckne d 49 Frank Horton r 3 Nita m. Lowey. D 1 Thomas j. Manton d 17 David o b. Martin r 8 Raymond j. Mcgrath r 4 Matthew f. Mchugh d 1 Michael r. Mcnulty d 15 Susan Molinari r 5 Bob Mrazek d 920 major r. Owens d 48 Bill Paxon re 96 Charles b. Rangel d 64 James h. Scheuer d 133 Jose e. Serrano d 7 Stephen j. Solarz d 743 Gerald . Solomon r 20 edolphus towns d 408 James t. Walsh r 34 Ted Weiss d 3 Nebraska Doug Bereuter r 39 Nevada Barbara f. Vucanovich r Ohio 2 Edward f. Feighan d wahls d. Gradison r Bob Mcewen r Mary Rose Oakar d Michael g. Oxton r Ralph Regula r Louis Stokes d Chalmers p. Wylie r Oklahoma 397 1 166 213 6 14 551 515 Bui Brewster d 2 Mickey Edwards. R 386 Glenn English d Dave Mccurdy d 1 8 Mike Synar d 11 Oregon Las Aucoin d 83 puerto Rico Jaime b. Fuster d Pennsylvania 3 Dic Swett. D Robert a. Borak d Lawrence Coughlin. R Joseph m. Gayoso d William f. Goo Oung r Paul Kan Korall d Peter h. Kostmayer d Austin j. Murphy. 0 John p. Murtha d 10 Thomas j. Ridge r 2 Richard t. Schulze r 4 Bud Shuster r 32 Curt Weldon r 9 Rhode Island Ronald k. Machtley r 21 South Carolina Elizabeth j. Patterson d 2 Floyd Spence r 12 John m. Spratt d 46 Robin Tallon d 2 Tennessee 33 1 3 430 7 50 6 Bob Clement d Jim Cooper d Harolden Ford d Bart Gordon d Marilyn Lloyd d Don Sundquist r John s. Tanner d Texas 1 7 388 6 8 2 3 Michael a. Andrews d 121 Bill Archer r 1 Richard k. Armoy r 19 John Bryant d 55 Albert Bustamante d 30 Ronald Coleman. D 673 e. Quot Kaka Quot de la Garza d 284 Tom delay r 11 Jack Fields r 22 Pete Geren d 3 Ralph m. Hall. D 18 Greg Laughlin d 9 Solomon r. Ortiz d 18 Bill Sarpalius d 6 Lamar s. Smith r 1 Charles w. Stenholm d 86 Craig a. Washington d 3 Charles Wilson d 81 Utah Wayne Owens d 87 Virgin islands Ron de Lugo d 106 Virginia Rick Boucher d 1 James p. Moran d 3 Jim Olin d 1 Owen b. Pickett d 1 Vermont Bernard Sanders Independent 5 West Virginia Alan b. Monohan d 12 Washington Rod Chandler r Norman Dicks d Thomas s. Foley d John mixer r Jolene Unsoeld d Wisconsin 1 3 2 58 1 Las Aspin d 6 Steve Gunderson r 22 Gerald d. Seczka. 0 1 Scott l Mug r 3 Devid Robey d 64 Thomas e. Petri r 77 f. James Sensenbrenner r 14 associated press
