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...last estimate, O'Neill calculated that some 50 of the 188 Republicans were leaning toward impeachment, a solid start toward gaining the kind of bipartisan support that the House leadership has been hoping to achieve should impeachment seem warranted. Holding these and winning over others may well depend as much upon how the evidence is handled by the Democrats as the evidence itself. And O'Neill, as he well knows, cannot afford to make a mistake in the days ahead. Privately, he believes that in the end the process will not run full course, that at some point...
...about provoking such splits, fearing that they would only exacerbate divisiveness throughout the nation. Additionally, any conviction of an impeached President would obviously require a substantial number of Republican as well as Democratic votes. That means, as Rodino repeatedly reminded his colleagues, that "we'll have to get bipartisan support...
Challenging the Congress to respond to his "bipartisan" initiatives, he drafted a new message demanding action on four "urgent" fronts: inflation, defense, the energy crisis and domestic-spending programs...
...Said one critic: "Working people can't see where he's doing anything for the state by going on television and quoting the Bible.") The Senator spends his evenings spreading the wisdom of the Bible and the U.S. Constitution. He addressed some 3,000 bipartisan picnickers at the Transylvania County Trout Festival. "It's great to escape from the confusion of Washington," he said, "where some people in high places don't look where they are going and some don't go where they are looking...
...area being investigated involves rental contracts made by the General Services Administration on behalf of various federal agencies for office space. Such agreements are frequently reached without competitive bidding, and the political clout of landlords is a clearly understood part of the negotiating process. One such contractor with impeccably bipartisan connections is, of course, Rodgers, whose firms began doing business with the Federal Government under Lyndon Johnson and prospered even more under Nixon. Since 1967, Rodgers' companies have received a total of $19.6 million from the GSA, and last year they collected $5.7 million; some of his leases run until...