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NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATE SEAT
The contested ballots of New Hampshire's disputed
Senate election last November are due to undergo a third
recount. (Earlier story, Weekly Report p. 224)
The Senate Rules Committee Feb. 19, on a motion by
Mark 0. Hatfield (R Ore.), voted unanimously to recount
about 3,500 ballots to try to finally determine whether
former Rep. Louis C. Wyman (R N.H. 1963-65, 1967-74) or
Democratic nominee John A. Durkin won the seat.
The committee's decision was favored by Durkin, who
preferred to have only the contested ballots considered by
the committee. Wyman wanted the panel to recount all
223,000 votes cast in the Senate election.
The committee, nevertheless, left open the possibility
that it would expand its recount beyond the 3,500 ballots.
After it finishes its own review of the ballots, it agreed to
consider the protests made by Wyman and Durkin in
November during New Hampshire's recount.
However, the panel did not commit itself to counting
any ballots other than the 3,500 that were referred to the
New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission after the initial
recount of all the votes by the state's secretary of state.
The recount gave Durkin a 10-vote victory. But the
commission, after its review of the contested ballots, found
Wyman had won by two votes.
The New Hampshire Senate seat has been vacant since
the term of former Sen. Norris Cotton (R) expired Jan. 3.
Recount Procedure
The tally certified by the commission will be used by
the Rules Committee as the basis on which it will make its
recount, adding or subtracting votes for the rival con-
tenders as it undertakes its review.
The ballot recount will be made by the committee
members themselves. At least 2,000 to 2,500 ballots are ex-
pected to be reviewed by committee staffers, according to
Senate sources. The remaining ballots would be counted by
the senators.
The staff is trying to find a method of masking which
candidate a ballot is marked for to reduce partisan in-
fluences in the recount. Although the state had informed
voters how to mark their ballots, the committee previously
had decided to include in its recount ballots that were check
marked or marked with colored pencils, contrary to voting
instructions. The committee is expected to approve the
ballot counting procedures by the end of the week of Feb.
17. 1
HANSEN CAMPAIGN VIOLATIONS
The chairman of the House Committee on Standards of
Official Conduct said Feb. 19 he expected his committee to
look into the case of Rep. George V. Hansen (R Idaho), who
leaded uilt Feb 19 in U S District Court in Washin
ton
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The plea to the two misdemeanor counts was only the
third time since World War II that a sitting representative
has admitted a criminal act in court. The other two were
former Rep. Bertram Podell (D N.Y. 1968-75) in 1974 and
former Rep. Thomas J. Lane (D Mass. 1941-63) in 1956.
Hansen is the first sitting representative charged un-
der the 1971 campaign law that established strict disclosure
requirements for all cam-
paign contributions and ex-
penditures of over $100. (1971
Campaign act, 1971 CQ
Almanac p. 875)
Hansen does not have to
give up his seat, even if he
serves a jail term, unless the
House decides by a two-thirds
vote to oust him.
The Idaho Republican
called the investigation by
the Justice Department of the
campaign. violation charges
politically motivated and
added: "I don't think I've done
anything to leave Congress for."
But Rep. John J. Flynt Jr. (D Ga.), new chairman of the
Standards of Official Conduct Committee, said Feb. 19: "I
expect the committee will go. into it."
Flynt declined further comment. House Minority
Leader John J. Rhodes (R Ariz.) defended Hansen, saying;
"I've known George Hansen for a long time. I have great
confidence in his integrity. I'm sure any violations were un-
intentional."
Hansen served in the House from 1965 to 1969, leaving
for an unsuccessful Senate bid, before winning a new term
last fall. He first defeated Rep. Orval Hansen (1969-75) in a
bitter Republican primary and then went on to beat
Democrat Max Hanson in November.
George Hansen had been investigated during the 1974
campaign by investigators from the House Administration
Committee which oversaw campaign law violations by
House candidates. The FBI also looked into allegations of
campaign law violations during the campaign.
Specifically accusing House Administration Com-
mittee Chairman Wayne L. Hays (D Ohio) of issuing
"damning and libelous statements" about Hansen, the
Idaho representative said he had been "singled out to be a
test case for (Hays') purposes regarding campaign law
reform." Hays denied the charges.
Hansen entered his plea to a criminal information filed
by an assistant U.S. attorney after an investigation by the
Justice Department and the FBI.
? The first count charged that he. did not file a report
with the Clerk of the House on June 10 as required by law.
? The second count charged him with filing a sworn
report on July 22, in which he claimed he had received no
money from June 1 through July 15 when he had actually
received $2,150 and knew it. I
HOUSE INTELLIGENCE PANEL
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y House-Feb. 19, by a 286-120 vote, adopted H Res
to two federal campaign financing misdemeanors. 138, establishing a Select Committee on Intelligence.
The two counts-each of which carries a possible jail
sentence of one year and fine up to $1,000-involved failure Despite some concern expressed on the floor that a
to file one campaign financing report and lying on another House select committee would only duplicate probes of
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the White House and the Senate, the House voted to set up.
its own panel to investigate "allegations of improper and il-
legal activities of intelligence agencies in the United States
and abroad." (Senate committee, Weekly Report p. 240)
Among the agencies which H Res 138 authorized the
committee to investigate were the National Security Agen-
cy, United States Intelligence Board, Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
Department of the Treasury and the intelligence com-
ponents of the Army, Navy and Air Force.
The Ford administration did not take a position on H
Res 138.
The committee was given until Jan. 31, 1976, to issue a
final report. H Res 138 authorized $750,000 to carry out the
study. The legislation was prompted by charges that the
CIA had violated its charter and spied on U.S. citizens dur-
ing the Vietnam war period and that the FBI maintained
derogatory reports on members of Congress. (CIA charges,
1974 Weekly Report p. 3455; FBI charges, p. 182)
"We do not know whether these allegations are true in
fact or not," Robert N. Giaimo (D Conn.), a co-sponsor of H
Res 138, told the House, "but... Congress has the absolute
obligation and duty to the American people...to exercise its
oversight function to determine whether there is any merit
to these allegations...."
The resolution was first considered by a specially ap-
pointed ad hoc subcommittee of the Democratic Steering
and Policy Committee. Chaired by Giaimo, the subcom-
mittee unanimously adopted the resolution Feb. 4 following
which the committee approved it. (Weekly Report p. 294)
After the House vote approving H Res 138, Speaker
Carl Albert (Okla.), who had consulted with the chairmen of
House committees having jurisdiction over intelligence ac-
tivities, appointed Armed Services Committee member Lu-
cien N. Nedzi (D Mich.) chairman of the select committee.
Six other Democrats and three Republicans were selected.
Democrats appointed were Giaimo, Don Edwards (Calif.),
James V. Stanton (Ohio), Michael J. Harrington (Mass.),
Ronald V. Dellums (Calif.) and Morgan F. Murphy (D Ill.).
Republicans named were Robert McClory (Ill.), David C.
Treen (La.) and Robert W. Kasten Jr. (Wis.).
Floor Action
John B. Anderson (R Ill.) offered an amendment to re-
quire equal representation of Republicans and Democrats
on the committee, but the proposal was rejected by a 141-
265 vote. (Vote ?, p. 414)
"If the people wanted the responsibilities to be divided
50-50 between the two parties, they would have voted that
way," said freshman William McNulty Brodhead (D Mich.).
Supporters of the amendment said a 5/5 party ratio was
needed to ensure that the investigation was conducted
without partisanship.
The House also rejected a second amendment offered
by Anderson to move forward the reporting date from Jan.
31, 1976, to Sept. 1, 1975, so that both the House and Senate
committees would issue their final reports simultaneously.
The House did agree to two other Anderson
amendments by voice votes. The first required the select
committee to establish rules to prevent the disclosure of
CIA-related information that would interfere with the
agency's foreign operations; the second established a $750,-
000 ceiling on committee expenses.
On the 286-120 vote passing H Res 138, Republicans
split (55-77) fairly evenly and Democrats gave overwhelm-
ing (231-43) approval. (Vote 9, p. 414) 1
- Jerry L. Pettis
Rep. Jerry L. Pettis (R Calif.) was killed Feb. 14
when his private plane crashed into a mountain as he
flew alone to a meeting of the state Utilities Commis-
sion in San Bernardino.
Pettis, 58, was elected to his fifth House term in
1974 with 62 per cent of the vote. He was an un-
successful candidate in December for the job of House
Republican whip.
Considered a strong conservative when he took his
district out of Democratic hands in 1966, Pettis
gradually developed a
more moderate image as
he gained seniority in the
House. Although he
remained a hard-liner on
national security issues,
Pettis broke with the
Nixon administration
frequently to support
civil rights and en-
vironmental legislation.
In 1971, for example,
Pettis conducted a
successful campaign to
force pollution control
authorities in Los
Angeles to release secret data on emissions. In 1973, he
startled some conservatives by expressing approval at
some of the things he saw on a visit to the People's
Republic of China. "Despite two revolutions since
1949," Pettis reported, "things appear to be very
stable .... I certainly don't advocate it for us, but for
them it has accomplished a great deal."
Pettis served on the Science and Astronautics
Committee until 1970, when he took a vacant Califor-
nia Republican seat on the Ways and Means Com-
mittee. As a committee member, he became a strong
supporter of Social Security and a key negotiator in
attempts to fashion compromise trade legislation
acceptable to the Soviet Union.
Locally, Pettis' popularity left him virtually in-
vulnerable to Democratic challenges, even in poor
Republican years. After winning his first term with
53.5 per cent in 1966, he was never re-elected with less
than 60 per cent.
The 1966 victory came in Pettis' second contest
against Democratic Rep. Kenneth W. Dyal (1965-67),
who won his only term in the 1964 Johnson landslide.
During the 1964 campaign, Pettis was kidnapped
by a man who entered his house at gunpoint, forced
him to drive to a deserted orange grove and said, "You
know you've been telling a lot of lies about Ken
Dyal...If you know what's good for you, you'll shut up."
Despite the incident, Dyal won with 51.7 per cent.
Pettis was a native of Phoenix, Ariz., and a resi-
dent of Loma Linda, Calif. Before coming to Congress,
he was an Air Force flight instructor, a pilot for United
Air Lines and a professor of economics at Loma Linda
University. The school is Seventh Day Adventist; Pet-
tis was the only Seventh Day Adventist in Congress.
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