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Publications [#15966] of Edward Tower
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- ""Is Talk Cheap? Buying Congressional Testimony with Campaign Contributions"," Ryan Gibbs, Omer Gokcekus and E. Tower, Journal of Policy Reform 5.3 (2002): 127-132.
(last updated on 2004/01/13)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.”