Publications [#239158] of Edward Tower

Journal Articles

  1. Gibbs, R; Gokcekus, O; Tower, E, "Is Talk Cheap? Buying Congressional Testimony with Campaign Contributions", Journal of Policy Reform, vol. 5 no. 3 (December, 2002), pp. 127-132, Blackwell
    (last updated on 2024/04/24)

    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.”