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Congressmen's stamp buying questioned
Washington-Eight lame-duck congressmen used tax
payers' money to buy enough stamps to paper a post
office during their final months In office last year, House
records show.
The purchases-whlch totaled nearly 400,000 stamps
were made even though retiring congressmen can use their
official House franking privilege. That provides them with
postage-free mailing for 90 days after they leave office.
The congressmen said they needed the nearly $60,000
in stamps for leftover business.
Stamp purchases are permitted for "official business"
by House rules, although "official business" has nevei
been strictly defined.
Several of the biggest purchases occurred on the last
day the congressmen were in office, according to the re
port of the clerk of the House.
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None of the eight had a history of making purchases of
postage. Two of them bought no postage during their pre
vious 12 months in office and three others purchased less
than $800 in stamps during that period the records show.
Several of the former congressmen acknowledged they
took some of the stamps with them when they left office
but said they needed stamps to meet future requests from
their former constituents.
Large-scale purchases of stamps are unusual. Most con
gressmen use the franking privilege to send their mail.
And of the 73 members of the- House who left office in
January, only the eight purchased more than $3,000 in
'stamps during their last three months in office.
The largest purchaser of stamps was Rep. Robert L.
Leggett, D-Calif., who bought $13,000 worth in his final
three months in office-including $3,000 worth on Jan. 2,
his final day in ottice.
In contrast, Leggett purchased a total of $2,700 in
stamps during the previous 12 months, according to the
House records.
Rep. B.F. Sisk, D-Calif., purchased $2,800 worth of
stamps in December and $6,000 worth of stamps on Jan.
2. He made no purchases of stamps during the previous
year.
Rep. James J. Delaney, D-N.Y., purchased $8,000 in
stamps in $2,000 increments starting on Nov. 14 and con
tinuing through Dec. 28. He also made no purchases of
stamps in the previous year.
Rep. Robert N.C. Nix, D-Pa., purchased $6,800 in
stamps in December plus $4,300 in September and Octo
ber. Nix's office bought $5,650 worth of stamps in the
previous year with the bulk-$3,050-coming in the third
quarter of 1978.
Others shown in House records as making more than
$3,000 in stamp purchases during their final months in
office were Reps. Fred Rooney, D-Pa., with $6,323 in
purchases; Newton Steers, R-Md., with $5,000; John
Young, D-Texas, with $3,999; and John J. Flynt, D-Ga.,
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