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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 10, 1991
Cable repair
Jerry Nelson (left), Jeff Terry (center) and Gary Conley of Teltec Corp. of Olathe roll up装
of a telephone and computer cable to replace damaged cable near Ellsworth Hall.
Most U.S. citizens want to improve diet
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Nearly 40 percent of U.S. citizens surveyed are dissatisfied with the way they eat, but many think it's too much work and sacrifice to do anything about it.
Forty-five percent said they were careful about how much fat they ate, but only 7 percent could cite the often-repeated guidance from federal and
other health authorities that fat should make up no more than 40 percent of total calories eaten daily.
Seventeen percent of the people surveyed said they thought all fat should be eliminated from the diet. While a growing number of nutrition experts say the 30 percent figure is high, it would be extremely difficult if not impossible to eliminate fat.
Survey respondents were divided into three categories: 26 percent of people who said nutrition was important and thought they were very careful to eat well; 38 percent who said they ought to do more; and 36 percent who said they had no interest in changing their diets.
Free lunch, parking perks end for Congress members
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress now are going to have as much trouble getting their parking tickets fixed as they will cashing paychecks at the house bank or leaving a Capitol restaurant without paying.
House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash,
announced this week that from now on,
members must fight city hall themselves
when they want a ticket reversed.
Previously. House employees had funneled the tickets to city officials to have them canceled under a city ordinance that allows members of Congress to park almost anywhere while they are on "official business"
Foley' s action came less than a week after the House closed its own bank, effective at the end of the year, and voted to have its ethics committee investigate the bank's policy of covering members' bad checks without penalty.
our penalty.
The ethics panel chairperson, Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, announced Tuesday that he would remove himself from the investigation because he had bounced checks in the Housebank.
Rep. Matthew McHugh, D-N.Y., is the next-ranking Democrat on the panel and will run the probe.
The House also has eliminated a voucher system at its private restaurant to eliminate the problem of delinquent tabs. When the House took that action last week, more than $300,000 was owed to the House restaurant system by more than 300 current and former members and the groups they sponsored.
The new policy on parking tickets will not end dismissal of tickets. Under Foley's directive, a member who receives a ticket whether at noon outside a congressional office building or at 3 a.m. in front of a night spot must personally make a case that he or she was on House business. The sergeant-at arms had been handling the job.
"After a while, in the late '80s, it got to the point where we simply had to have a more organized way of handling this," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "There were just too many requests."
A former high-ranking District of Columbia official said that several times a month, he would receive a package of tickets and be asked to have them nullified by the city's Traffic Adjudication Bureau.
The official estimated that he handled between 20 and 40 requests each month. City parking tickets were valued at a minimum of $15, while the lowest amount pay is $20 an infraction.
The system was devised in 1987, when House and city officials agreed that the tickets would be forwarded to then-Mayor Marion Barry's office, where city officials would work with traffic department employees to have the tickets reversed, the former district official said.
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The official said it was impossible to tell which tickets met the "official business" standard.
"Anything you saw from, say, five or six in the morning, in an area far from the member's home, certainly raised questions, "the official said. 'But what was I going to do?' Tell a member of Congress he was lying?"
Despite the recent uprоar over House privileges, it is not always the taxpayer who subsidizes member perks.
When a lawmaker wrote a rubber check on his account at the House bank, it was covered from deposits by other members.
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