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Only an hour was left in the debate over Henry Foster's doomed nomination as Surgeon General last week when Senator Bob Smith, a beefy New Hampshire Republican, lumbered into the almost empty Senate chamber with a plastic fetus, an easel and six huge posters. For the next 30 minutes, he unnerved his colleagues--and the summer tourists who packed the galleries--with an excruciatingly detailed description of a medical procedure that abortion opponents call partial-birth abortion. "In illustration No. 4," Smith said calmly, "the abortionist takes a pair of scissors and inserts the scissors into the back...
Foster's allies were livid and rushed back to the chamber. Though the Tennessee obstetrician and gynecologist had acknowledged performing 39 abortions during his 38-year career, no one had accused him of doing or even of condoning the grisly procedure described by Smith. "It's outrageous to bring something like that on the Senate floor," Illinois Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun complained...
California Democrat Willie Brown did it again. Having only recently outmaneuvered a Republican majority to remain the state assembly speaker, Brown outflanked the G.O.P. one last time before stepping down from the post he has held for 15 years. Capitalizing on the parties' even split of the current chamber, Brown recruited a dissident Republican, Doris Allen, to take over his job, put her over the top with the votes of all Democrats and then got himself appointed "speaker emeritus" -- a position that will allow him to "assist" the new speaker while he focuses on running for mayor of San Francisco...
...Gramm (R-Tex.)threatened to block his own party's budget if it does not cut taxes for families and investors. "This is a defining moment for our party and for our country, and I will cut no deals with America's future," Gramm told a United States Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting in St. Louis. "If they negotiatea budget with no family tax cuts and no incentives for growth, I will stop it cold." Gramm, who failed to gain support for a tax-cut package similar to the $350 billion House package, noted that Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole...
Other business interests appear to agree."There is a real fine line between freedom ofspeech and regulation of what is considered freespeech," said Helena G. Rees, public affairsdirector of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce...