"Senator," said the forlorn constituent calling on Montana's Mike Mans field at the majority leader's Washington office, "I've never been East before, never spoken to a Congressman, and can't afford this trip. So you can appreciate that I've got a serious complaint."
The complaint that he and about 530 other home builders from around the U.S. brought before their Congressmen last week in a one-day lobbying visit was simple: their industry is in a perilous condition. Competition for deposits between commercial banks, which lend primarily to business, and savings institutions, which lend...
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