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handle is hein.amenin/aeiabaz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congress off ie Record The Candid Analyses of Seven Members EDITED BY JOHIN F. BIBBY Ij used to wonder why my predeiesor ait after only fen years, ne was enornousny popular and could have hept Ins seat as long as he wanted. Now I wonde, how he made it ten years. We'd construct alternatives and zap them out there and create pa ry posi- tions and raise hell with the other side, but we weren't responsible for governing. Now we are.' qt's dramaticalli, easier to run as an incumbent. My opponent made a vicio's aftack on me in his annoncement statenient, anal answered it the foilowing day by mailing 220,000 newsletters. The Senate is a zoo, [ have no interest in the Senate. I like the scaled anronymity of the Hoti s I-he Senate is all personality dependent. It's people who shave the face of the next president every morning, T he candor of these remarks characterizes the outlook of tl e seven freshman members of lhe House of Representatives wIho took part in a study by the Congress Project of the American Enterprise Insitute. Meeting in a series of roundtable dis- cussion5 from 1979 to 1982, the four Republicans and three Democrats served under two presidents and confronted such issues as the budget reconciliation process, the AWACS sale, and the Chrysler bailout. These post-Watergate rnember s show a strong sense of independence from their party, from interest groups, and from the president and convey how much the House has changed from ite tradition-bound institution their predecessors knew. john F. Bibby ;s professor of political science at the Uni- versiT of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and codirector of AE'cs Congress Project .He is coauthor of On Capitol Hll and Vital Siatstis on ('onress, 1982. US $12.00 ISEI, -3:9?8 0 8447-3526-9 ISBN- 1 :011- 8 4 7 352L 0844 i 1 9~' ~'I a , ' -91[II --ILL------ American Enterprise inslitute Suisin otia and Social Processes The Candi, Analyses of Seven iembers Ed ited by John F Bi.bby

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