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Publications [#15966] of Edward Tower

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  1. Ryan Gibbs, Omer Gokcekus and E. Tower, "Is Talk Cheap? Buying Congressional Testimony with Campaign Contributions", Journal of Policy Reform, vol. 5 no. 3 (2002), pp. 127-132, Blackwell [html]
    (last updated on 2010/05/14)

    Abstract:
    For the steel import quota bill of 1999, our answer to the question posed in the title is that each word in the Congressional Record costs $39 in campaign contributions from the steel industry. Consequently, our answer is “Yes.”


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