Voters will be busy on Sunday, choosing not only a president, but 27 state governors, 513 congressmen, 1,069 regional lawmakers and a third of the senate.
As well as choosing from the 11 presidential candidates, voters are selecting 27 state governors, 513 congressmen, 1,069 regional lawmakers and a third of the senate.
Each year, the government used to give each of the 24 senators 200m pesos ($4.6m) from the pork barrel, and each of the 290 congressmen 70m pesos.
Or is it always better to spend tax dollars (directly, or indirectly through the rent-seeking efforts of domestic white collar welfare corporations who lobby our congressmen 24/7?).
Twenty-four House members hold doctoral degrees, and 168 congressmen and 57 senators have law degrees.
(Among the 435 congressmen, only 15 were black)." Since then, Chinese textbooks have had several rounds of revisions, but the Obama Presidency seems likely to require at least one more.
The payroll is further stretched by political appointees: each senator can appoint 50 and each congressman 25.
The congressman, 62, has something of the tom-cat about him: it is possible to imagine him ruling a maze of alleys, with many scars and a torn ear.
And whether they approve or disapprove of Mr. Rangel, they think his behavior is typical for a congressman: 66 percent said his conduct was no better or worse than his fellow lawmakers.
As Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, the wife of an ambitious Ohio congressman 15 years her senior, she was expected to support the Republican presidential candidacy of William H. Taft rather than her father's third-party Progressive campaign.
1944 Confessions of a Congressman, 1947 The Christian in Politics.
