Is Talk Cheap? Buying Congressional Testimony with Campaign Contributions

Ryan Gibbs, Omer Gokcekus and Edward Tower

No 02-31, Working Papers from Duke University, Department of Economics

Abstract: For the steel import quota bill of 1999, our answer to the question posed in the title is that each word in the Congressional Record costs $39 in campaign contributions from the steel industry. Consequently, our answer is "Yes."

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Date: 2002
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