Word: pickpocketing
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...House also quickly and quietly voted itself a nice little Christmas gift, doubling to more than $18,000 the amount of outside income members will be permitted to earn each year. "This is the pickpocket's way," cried dismayed Republican Millicent Fenwick of New Jersey after the unrecorded vote. The Representatives also voted to allow themselves tax deductions for the cost of maintaining a second residence in Washington. The sneaky, swift maneuvers seemed particularly ill suited in this season of fiscal austerity. Other last-minute actions: the narrow approval, by a 205-to-203 vote, of a scaled-back...