Word: bairds
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...confirmation hearing opened last Tuesday with not a single member of the committee on record against Baird. But the illegal-alien issue was front and center -- and growing fast. "There were phone calls to offices, local editorials," says a top Senate official. "The people were just way ahead of us." Biden more than hinted at the ground swell with his pointed, if rambling, questions. "Do you understand that the vast majority of the American people have similar needs?" he lectured...
...Baird allowed that she had made a "mistake," but stressed that she had been open about the infraction from the start. She blamed her husband for having failed to file Labor Department papers in a timely fashion, saying, "I would have pushed to make it more expeditious." She assumed responsibility for the lapse in judgment but blamed it on the pressures of motherhood...
...appeal designed to tug heartstrings. But Baird's apologia did not play well in Peoria -- or the rest of America. Irate callers jammed the phone lines of radio and cable stations across the country, denouncing her tax dodging and calling on her to withdraw. The switchboard on Capitol Hill lit up as constituents weighed in with their representatives. In a single day, Senator Paul Simon's Washington office logged 1,000 calls. "In 18 years in the Senate," said Senator Patrick Leahy, "I had never seen so many telephone calls, spontaneously, in such a short period." Senator Nancy Kassebaum...
...Clinton was feted, two transition-team lawyers flew to Connecticut to interview Baird's immigration lawyer, Belote. They emerged disturbed by what one lawyer called "substantial discrepancies" between Baird's testimony and Belote's logs and diaries. Upset by his depiction in the media as an inept attorney, Belote provided documentation that some Senators believe contradicts Baird's testimony. While Baird testified that her husband contacted Belote upon hiring the Peruvians in July 1990, Belote's documents indicate that Gewirtz did not contact Belote's firm until four months later. Moreover, according to a lawyer familiar with the session, Belote...
...second round of hearings opened Thursday, it was plain that Baird was a woman without a constituency. She had no track record with women's groups, Washington insiders or public-interest groups. Not even professional women with children rushed to her defense...