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Governors William Clinton (D-Ark.) and Michael Castle (R-Del.), leaders of the lobby for national welfare reform, said most governors now agree that the country needs more employment training programs and other incentives to get people off of the welfare rolls. But they said congressional priorities and presidential politics may ruin the chances for such changes this year...
...unswervingly pro-choice, pro-ERA, and has recently, with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), been pushing a "pay equality" proposal to establish comparable pay for comparable work. He gets high ratings from consumer and conservation lobby groups. Hart's "party unity" rating in 1981 was one of the highest among Senate Democrats, and exceeded that of other President aspirants Sen. Allen Cranston (D-Calif.), Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.), and Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.). Indeed, Hart is the only one in this group who opposed both draft registration...
...tempted to believe that the four conservative Southerners--Sen. Fritz Hollings (D.S.C), former Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida, probably Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.), and perhaps former National Party Chairman Robert Straus of Texas--have entered the fray partly out of the much heralded "turn to the right" the country experienced in 1980. Indeed, early press reports indicated that Sen. Hollings based the rationale for his campaign in part on those halcyonyon pre recession days of 1981, when Time referred to Reagan as a domestically able President," and a Democratic candidacy as a conservative alternative to Ronald Reagan seemed credible...
...most paranoid reflections. It recommended the death penalty for a shockingly wide range of crimes and a "National Security" act that would protect at executive discretion almost anything within government purview. Under that legislation, for example, Daniel Ellsberg would have been jailed. After S. 1400 died, Senators John McLellan (D-Ark.) and Roman Hruska (R-Neb.), the national champion of mediocrity, co-sponsored a less strident version...
...page bill, Senate Bill 1437, represents the culmination of 12 years of compromise effort by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and the late Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark...