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...produce a pair of Super Bowl tickets. And so last week the Senate voted 95-4 for tough gift restrictions -- no more trips to luxury resorts, no more gifts worth more than $20. During the debate, members couched their feelings about the pending deprivation in high-minded terms. However, Bennett Johnston of Louisiana couldn't help whining that he wouldn't even be able to attend the annual opera ball in New Orleans if the new rules prevailed. In the Capitol, TicketMaster is an alien concept, as is advance-purchase-Saturday-night-stayover airline reservations. And paying for dinner...
Last week the Senate voted 95 to 4 in favor of banning gifts from lobbyists and other special-interest groups. What's been lost? Here are some free trips three of the holdouts took during 1991-92. (The fourth, freshman Robert Bennett, a Utah Republican, hasn't yet filed financial-disclosure forms...
...WILLIAM BENNETT (ex-Secretary of Education...
Paula Corbin Jones, 27, a former Arkansas state worker, sued President Clinton for $700,000 for allegedly violating her civil rights in 1991 by making unwelcome sexual advances toward her in a Little Rock hotel room. Said Clinton's attorney Robert Bennett: "It is tabloid trash with a legal caption on it." A number of witnesses have supported aspects of Corbin's story, but her case was undermined somewhat by her sister Charlotte Brown, who told an Arkansas television station that Jones told her she "smelled money" in her allegations...
...ROBERT BENNETT...