month this young congressman had been elevated above the ranks of other young congressmen to a place of some significance in the House of Representatives—made me feel it was imperative that I find out and document what had happened in that month. What had made so many congressmen—including powerful senior congressmen, barons of Capitol Hill—become supplicants to him, asking this junior congressman for a few minutes of his time? And if indeed the transformation had to do with money, I had to find documentation of what had happened; without something in writing, I wasn’t going to be able to
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