He never sought any loans, bonds, subsidies, land grants or legislative favors from the government.

He voted against their cause, the 19th Amendment, a few years after his legislative favor to Jarvis.

They seemed to believe that old-fashioned rugged individualism was all that mattered in late-twentieth-century America, except when, of course, their supporters wanted special legislative favors.

He has found his villain - "the special interests" in both parties trading campaign money for legislative favor - and is winning independents.

In many cases, Democrats can exact reprisal against companies that financed the Republican revolution and won special legislative favors in return.

She'd been distracted by a pending "60 Minutes" piece alleging that she did a legislative favor for her husband's business in 2008.

There is no evidence that Mr. Lautenberg granted any legislative favors with fund raising in mind.

"Incumbents can and do use their position to extract money from wealthy individuals who want legislative favors," Mr. Foyle said in an address to the conference.

According to Justice Department officials, prosecutors were unable to prove that meals had been exchanged for legislative favors.

As chief deputy majority whip, Mr. Hastert is responsible for taking the temperature of lawmakers on major votes and dealing with legislative favors.