Glass houses : congressional ethics and the politics of venom / Susan J. Tolchin and Martin Tolchin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tolchin, Susan J., author.

Tolchin, Martin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Congress--Ethics.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado ; Oxford, England : Westview Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While members of the House and Senate confront the public''s changing attitudes toward money, sex, and power, they are also forced to raise ever-escalating sums to finance their campaigns. Practices tolerated a decade ago now may cost lawmakers their seats or land them in jail. Lawmakers often don''t know if they live in Salem or Gomorrah. Using new information culled from dozens of Capitol Hill interviews, Susan and Martin Tolchin show how ethics in Washington have changed over two centuries while offering new interpretations of past ethics cases. The first book to analyze the politicization

Contents:

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Acronyms; 1 The Ethics Wars; 2 The Apple and Other Temptations; 3 Joe McCarthy and the Ethics Process; 4 Abscam and the "Keating Five"; 5 The New Rules of the Ethics Wars; 6 Sex-The Sin of Hypocrisy; 7 Torricelli, the CIA, and the Intelligence Committee; 8 Forgery-The Case of the Purloined Stationery; 9 The Noble Lie-Modern Ethical Dilemmas; 10 The Politics of Venom; APPENDIX A: Expulsion, Censure, Reprimand, and Ethics Proceedings in the Senate 1797-2001

APPENDIX B: Summary of Expulsion, Censure, Reprimand, and Ethics Procedures in the House of Representatives, 1797-2001Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-50021-1

0-7867-5101-0

9780429500213

OCLC:

967198885