Word: boren
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...noisy barrage. As soon as Congress reconvened after its Lincoln's Birthday recess, Democrats David Boren of Oklahoma and James Exon of Nebraska began a Senate filibuster aimed at forcing the Administration to make more loan money available to farmers who might otherwise go broke before they can get their spring planting done. The most important business delayed was confirmation of Edwin Meese as Attorney General, which has already been on hold for a year. Robert Dole, the new Majority Leader, called the maneuver "blackmail" and testily declared, "If we start playing political games rather than responding to the real...
...David L. Boren (D-Okla.) threatened yesterday to filibuster against any matter the Senate tries to consider unless an agreement can be reached with the Senate leadership to address "a widespread farm credit crisis...
...face bankruptcy before they can get their crops planted this spring, readied bills to force a vastly greater expansion of loan guarantees. One measure being drafted by Grassley and his Kansas Republican colleague, Senator Nancy Kassebaum, would increase the amount available to $4 billion. Exon and Oklahoma Democrat David Boren vowed a filibuster that would prevent the Senate from transacting any other business until it passed some such bill...
...Democratic Senators David Boren of Oklahoma and William Proxmire of Wisconsin; Democratic Congressmen Anthony Beilenson of California, Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana and William Natcher of Kentucky; Republican Congressmen Bill Archer of Texas, William Goodling of Pennsylvania, Willis Gradison Jr. of Ohio, Jim Leach of Iowa and Ralph Regula of Ohio...
Other critics believe the Continental rescue proves that the FDIC has a big-bank bias. Said Democratic Senator David Boren of Oklahoma: "The result of FDIC policy seems to encourage concentration of banking in a few large institutions and requires discipline only of small banks. Oklahomans are justifiably bitter about this double standard, especially when the collapse of Penn Square Bank doubled the state's bankruptcy rate...