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...least one-quarter of the 50 former members of the just departed 98th Congress say they intend to remain in Washington to work in or around the Government. The most conspicuously well rewarded will almost certainly be former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, who will earn about a million dollars this year, principally as a representative of a Houston law firm, Vinson & Elkins...
...Labor and Big Business and Big Education and Big Government are all jittery. "There are for the time being power vacuums at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue," says Oklahoma's James Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee in the expiring 98th Congress. He is debating whether to seek an unprecedented third term in that critical but trying position...
...SenateD R U.S. House D R Governors D R Won 15 17 Won 240 171 Won 4 8 Leading 1 0 Leading 11 13 Leading 1 0 Holdovers 31 36 99th Trend 251 184 Holdovers 29 8 99th Trend 47 53 98the Congress 267 168 Trend 34 16 98th Congress 45 55 Change (Est) R +16 Current 35 15 Change (Est) D +2 Change...
WHEN Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tenn) waved goodbye to his colleagues at the close of Congress' 98th session two weeks ago, the Senate laid aside its rule against applause to give the Majority Leader a standing ovation. Retiring to pursue a full-time Presidential bid, the 18-year veteran left behind him a record of good-humored and effective leadership in the maelstrom that is Senate politics...
...wake, the 98th Congress left a helter-skelter of dead bills. Among the principal casualties was a long-overdue reform of the nation's immigration laws, the Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Also abandoned was a civil rights measure that restated the intent of Congress, in the aftermath of a contrary Supreme Court ruling, to deny all federal funds to entire institutions, rather than just to the offending department or program, if discrimination is practiced. Killed, too, was a bill to renew and increase financing of the superfund program under which Washington helps states and localities clean up toxic-waste dumps...