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...Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, in a letter last month to constituents
...House members who do not think his way, he drove the impeachment Congress as majority leader during Watergate. For the past eight of his 28 years in Congress, he has been the Democrat to deal with. But today many of the Speaker's good friends agree with Les Aspin that Tip is on the ropes. Despite a moving personal plea by O'Neill from the well of the House last week, 63 members of his party bolted ranks to vote for the Reagan-approved Gramm-Latta budget resolution. At that moment, it was clear that the nation...
Said Democratic Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin, a longtime foe of military mismanagement: "A fifth-grader could fill in the blanks on that one.If the Pentagon assumes that the KGB cannot, I guess the entire Western world can breathe a little easier...
...Speaker Tip O'Neill predicts that his restive Congress is going to raise the defense budget even over the $11 billion increase (total $125.8 billion) proposed by Jimmy Carter. The eloquent and insistent voices for disarmament from Iowa's Senator John Culver and Wisconsin's Les Aspin have been subtly toned down lately as the facts of the Soviet buildup have hardened...
...elected to the House were Democrats Les Aspin of Wisconsin, Ronald Dellums of California, Elizabeth Holtzman and Charles Rangel of New York and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, along with Republicans Jack Kemp of New York, Tom Railsback of Illinois and William Steiger of Wisconsin. Minnesota Democrat Martin Sabo was elected to the House...