National Affairs: Report on Lobbying

Appointed, soon after South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case told of a $2,500 campaign-contribution offer from a natural-gas lobbyist, a Special Senate Committee worked on and off (mostly off) for 14 months, interviewed 146 witnesses, appealed to Senators, press and public to come forth with specific cases of crooked lobbying. Last week the committee, headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, issued its report, reached one major conclusion: "One of the striking circumstances in the investigations has been the lack of specific complaints, or specific facts or information, concerning attempts to influence any...

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