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..The same year, Murphy confirmed .Rep. John M. Murtha, D-Pa. that he nad arranged a meeting in A Marine Corps major wio won a 1973 between the Interstate Com-. Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts merce Commission and Thomus --Vietnam, Murtha has in six years Gambino, son of reputed New York become an influential House mem. City mafia boss Cario Gambino. The ber with close access to the formal younger Gambino was having diffi- Democratic power structure. culty obtaining ICC authorization The s3,200-a-year pay raise that 1 for his trucking firm. Murphy later took effect for members of Congress appeared before a grand jury on the last year owes more to Murtha than" subject. to any other individual, As a mem- In early 1979, it was,publicly re- ber of the House Appropriations ported that Murphy was under Committee, hesaw that pay raise investigationby the Justice Depart- language was included in a legisla- ment for possible tax evasion and tive appropriations bill last spring. failure to register as a foreign agent. The Staten Island Democrat was ac- When that bill was defeated on the House floor, Murtha tried again, at. tive on behalf of the Pahlavi Foun- taching a pay raise to an emergency dationa Tehran trust fund cen- trolled,by.the deposed shah of Iran. appropriation-bill. Along with other member's of the House leadership, he lobbied furiously for it in the weeks before floor consideration, and pa- trolled the aisles the afternoon of the,yote, helping to round up the support needed to push the bill through. In addition.to serving on the Iature. When Democrat William J. Appropriations Coinmittee, Murtha Myers's,three-year congressional ca.. reer is one he.would just as soon for- Green left the U.S, House to run for is'a Imember of the Commmittee on get. He was arrested in January of the Senate in 1976, Lederer move'd Stanlards of Officia! Conduct, the 1979. and' charged with assaulting a on to Congress. chan ber's ethics committee. security guard and-a cashier in an Lederer also succeeded to Green's ,Rep. John W. JenretteJr., DS.C. Arlington cocktail lounge. place on the Ways and Means Com. John Jenrette came to Congress in The arrest took place after a party. mittee, where he has been a consist- 1974 through the support of the following Myers' swearing-in for his :ent liberal Democratic vote. He has emerging black electorate in South second congressional: term. He was worked hard for tariff protection for Carolina, and he has been a close initially charged with assault and industries important to his area, and ally of his state's.black community battery, but pleaded no contest to has been an active critic of subsidies ever since. one count of disorderly conduct. under an arrangement that allowed to sugar producers. A natiye of Horry-County, scene of federal probes in-the past, Jenrette his record to be'cleared of the con. ' Rep. Richard Kelly, R-FIa. came to prominence in 1972 when he viction. The only Republican reported to wrested the district's Democratic Otherwise, Myers has been a quiet be under investigation, Kelly has nomination from John McMillan, member of the Education and Labor .survived serioustrouble before. the aging chairman of the House Dis- Committee-and'only an infrequent trict of Columbia Committee. He lost participant in House floor debate. As a local judge in Florida, Kelly the general election that year, but A former cargo.checker on'the faced impeachment charges based ousted a.Republican in i974, and Philadelphia docks, Myers rose in on his treatment of'defendants be. won re-election comfortablyin 1976 South Philadelphia Democratic poli- fore the bench. But he was never and 1978. tics -under the regime of Mayor convicted by the state legislature, Jenrette has been a member of the Frank L. Rizzo. When a, vacancy de. and won election to the House in House Agricuiture and Appropria- veloped in the city's congressional' 1974. tions committees.and has worked delegation in 1976, the party organ. assiduously for the protection of ization chose Myers, and he was As a-House member, Kelly has iobacco, the area's. most-important easily nominated and elected. -been a maverick and a loner, a bitter commodity. On other issueshe has critic of labor unions and the bu- generally been among the most Rep. Raymond F. Lederer, D-Pa. reaucracy, who enjoys tearing into Like Myers, Lederer made his the liberal opposition on the House moderate of the southern House Democrats, more willing than most reputation in Philadelphia politics flpor. He has been among the cham- as a an organization Democrat, one ber's most consistent fiscal consery- to support national party goals. In who helped Mayor Rizzo when the atives, and this brought him extra 1979, he supported a welfare reform bill opposed by almost all Democrats chips were down. attention in 1979 when it was discov- A former football coach and ered that he had overspent his from southern states. ,probation officer in the Philadel- House expense allowance, forcing Rep. Michael (Ozzie) Myers, D-Pa. phia school system, Lederer served him to pay money back to'Congress. The best-known incident of Ozzie 'two terms in the Pennsylvania legis.