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: Murphy has,been chalrman of.the Merchant Interviewed:him yesterday. implied-he was Marine, Committee since, 1976. undersuspicion/and left him with the impres- : The 53-year-old-representative from /Staten. Island,js,avest.Point.graduate.whowasa . staunch.supporter offormer strongmenPark meeting - No . one at /the. Justice. Department. would! ~Chung Heeof South Korea,the shah Iran and Anastasio, Somoza.of Nicaragua:. gation yesterday, :but-some officials said they elected in 1374'to the House`seat from the:6th were concerned:that future defendants in the :District of South Carolina. He has won'arepu tation as a flamboyant personality, Two years? It also, is clear, they said, that any defend- ago, the press reported he held'a fund-raiser 'ants would try.to say they were entrapped~by at his home,here, and. for.'$ioo a,person, gave. .the undercover.agents: Sourees said they were startled by the. in- quor and "hicken bog" they could down.ris creasing number of members of Congress who ing s2o,o00 Jenrette is a member of the Hodse Appropriations Conumistce. continued. When word of the "Arab" money Murtha. 47, was elected in 1974 in a-specin! election to rill a seat left vacant by the leah blood in the water," one source said. of an ineumbent. lie is a nember of th Some powerful and prominent,nien in .Appropriations and Ethics commiltees. Murth.. was onc of thosc naned to probe phanton volved in the investigation.. - House votes last year. Murtha comes Irom Sen. williams, 60, a Democrat of Bedmin. Johnstown, Pa., was a Marine in Vietnan, ster, N.J., was firse clected to the U.S. Senate car wash owncr and rated high in toting in 1938 after spending five years in the House. record compilations put together by organized. With his 21 years of seniority, his strong la. labor. bor backing, his reputation as a leading lib- Kelly, 55, of Zephyrhills, Fla., was lirst eral, he has become a power baron. He is chairman of the Labor and Human Re. Agriculture'and Banking committees. Last sources Committec, which has jurisdiction year it was reported that while he had made over labor law, educatlon and the arts and a point in his career of attacking the big many of the health and welfare programs spenders in government. he himself had run. that make up the gicalest focus of attention $11,so over his office allowance for 1978. for organized labor and liberal groups nation- In 1976, he spearheaded an effort to got wide. strikers disqualified from the food stam? Sinee there Is no separale subcommittee for program unless they were on it before a Iabor law matters, ivilliams as full committee Strike started. Disney World is in his district. chairman is in effect chairman for Jabor law, ' In 1978 his labor rating was zero, his Ameri- which the full committee handles by itself. cans for Democratic Action rating 5 pereent. Willians is second-ranking Democrat on his Americans for Constitutional Action 100 the Senate Banking Committee and ehairman percent. of the housing and urban affairs subconmit. L.ederer, 41, from Philadelphia's Third. DJs. tec with enormaus influence over the housing trict. was elected in 1976. le comes from a industry, the-cities and housing for,tne poor. family long,active in'city ponucs. His,olde} williams' House.colleague fromNew Jersey, Thompson, 1,'a Democrat from Trenton, was: : once' chiefof detectives., Lederer,a,member first elected -toCongress,in 1954:As second .of-the, powerful Ways and Means'Committee, was once reported to, haye ambitions tobe. and Labor: Committee and. chairman of its. .come.chairman, ofs.the: Democratid .committee.. labor:management relations subcommittee,he has, had the same, power over. labor unions, -the-contenders. the same pro-labor.and liberal records on labor: Michael^(Ozzie) Myers, 36;-was-electedain matters-and most -other. domestie-Iegislation. 1976: as Democratic-congressmanfrom: Phila... as, Williams has-in the. Senate Together, the* ..delphia's,First Dlstrict.Myers,a'former long twomen are the dominant Democrats'on each Shoreman, 'pleaded: no-contest to. one charge. Side of- Capitol Hill on labor matters. of disorderly conduct last April 10 after orig Thompson, however, is also::chairman .of Inally having, beencharged with, assaultsand, the House Administration Committee, 'a imi: nor-sounding but extremely influential unit in a rooftop.bar in anArlington Va. motel which has .some.of;the,same, housekeeping. Myers denied there, was, any punching. and. functions as. Senate Rules. Thompson's,com-. said: "we, were just doing atlittle partying...... mitteer helped -write the campaign funding. - I'm.a gentle guy? Myers, who is on the Ed- laws;and restrictlons-in-the-past.-Many.of-the. ucatlon'and:Labor-and-Merchant-Marine Com et.nriuilagac thaRrank