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ACU Asks: Where was Gephardt?
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| Last Edited | Wabash Jan 15, 2004 07:59am |
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| News Date | Thursday, January 15, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In an 11th-hour attempt to inflict political damage on Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) in the Jan. 19 Iowa caucuses, the nation’s largest grassroots conservative group is filing a lawsuit to force him to refund most of his official salary because he has spent so much time away from Capitol Hill campaigning.
The federal suit, to be brought by the American Conservative Union (ACU) later this week, seeks to force the House clerk to garnish a fair chunk of Gephardt’s $154,700 annual wage under an obscure 1850s law last enforced 90 years ago.
Gephardt missed 506 votes in the House last year, more than 90 percent of the total and considerably more than any other Democratic lawmaker seeking the presidency.
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