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Incumbent Republican Don Nickles won re-election over Rep. James Jones. In the race to replace a retiring Democratic governor, forme Republican Gov. Harry Bellmon defeated Democrat David Walters, a Harvard B-School graduate...
...veterans' benefits and disability insurance. Oozing sarcasm, Muskie said, "It is encouraging to see that so many of these Senators who refused to pay the price for fiscal discipline just one month ago are now eager to make public demands to end such profligacy." Says Oklahoma Senator Henry Bellmon, ranking Republican on the Budget Committee: "He's an enormously able person, a pragmatist without many ideological hang...
...form of direct federal grants and loans to post-secondary school students. His own proposal, sponsored by Rhode Island Democrat Claiborne Pell, passed the Senate by a 68-to-28 count, barely 14 hours after the tax credit vote. After the Pell measure was okayed, Oklahoma Republican Henry Bellmon chided his colleagues, declaring: "I cannot imagine why we would pass two bills on two successive days to accomplish essentially the same objective." As it happens, the House-which approved its own $1.1 billion tax credit package June 1-has the President's proposal buried in committee. Its chances...
...Frankfort, Ky., party stalwarts applauded politely for Senator Walter Huddleston, who voted for the treaty, but gave a standing ovation to Wendell Ford, who opposed the accord. Conservatives in Arizona and Oklahoma talked of mounting a campaign to recall their Senators who favored the treaties-Deconcini and Henry Bellmon-even though there is no legal way for constituents to remove a Senator before his term ends. On the other hand, Brooke made a weekend swing through Massachusetts and got a positive reaction from voters about his support of the treaty. Said an aide: "They seemed satisfied...
...reorganization. The Special Committee on Aging was made a permanent Senate special committee by a unanimous vote on the Senate floor (a few Senators, however, abstained). Encouraged by this vote, Nutrition Committee Chairman George McGovern (D.-S. Dak.), Sens. Robert Dole (R.-Kan.), Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn.), Henry Bellmon (R.-Okla.), Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.) and others fought to extend the Nutrition Committee on a year-by-year basis, as had been done in the past. Nutritions ranking minority member Charles Percy (R.-Ill.) made the impassioned plea...