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City Councilor David Sullivan, a co-sponsor of the bill, said he feared Harvard had not completely prepared the University community for the ordinance by not issuing campus-wide rules for compliance...
...that he has been nicknamed "Iowa's seventh Congressman" (the state has six). The boyish-looking lawyer's penchant for work is well known: after arriving in Washington in 1977, he quickly rose through Congress to become chairman of the House Democratic Caucus in 1984. He was the co-sponsor with New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley of the Bradley- Gephardt tax-reform proposal, one of the prototypes for the sweeping revision of the tax code that was enacted last summer. Gephardt intends to tap that success for all it is worth, stressing that he can "take the ideas and make...
...pocket veto until after last week's elections, since Congress would not be in session to override him. Sponsors in the Senate and the House vowed to introduce the legislation in the new Congress. "If he was dissatisfied with the cost," said Republican Senator Robert Stafford of Vermont, a co-sponsor, "then he should just wait to see what the Democratic Congress comes up with next year...
...Senate floor, the transition rules faced a rare attack, mounted by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, who branded many of them "greed rules." Metzenbaum got the Unocal rule deleted with Packwood's support. One reason: Packwood had a score to settle with California Republican Pete Wilson, the rule's co-sponsor. But otherwise, Senators were of a mind to add rather than subtract. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens complained that the privilege of inserting transition rules in the bill was being hogged by Finance Committee members...
FOOTNOTE: *Republican Freshmen Senators Phil Gramm of Texas and Warren B. Rudman of New Hampshire actually have a better-known co-sponsor, Democrat Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, but two sponsors' names are generally about all that people want to remember. Purists call it Gramm-Rudman- Hollings, or GRH. Officially, its name is the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control...