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Bill Clinton enjoys wrapping his lips around an unlit cigar. A top source at a local tobacconist's claims the President "smokes" Hoyo De Monterre Excalibur 1s ... The FDA's David Kessler admits to collegiate pipe smoking ... Anti- tobacco Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) used to be a two-pack-a-day man ... Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia smoke cigars. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a social cigarette smoker. At Clinton's Inauguration, he's rumored to have bummed a cigarette from Senator Wendell Ford (D...
Along with his support, Rostenkowski expressedhis reservations about the Clinton bill, joiningSen. George J. Mitchell (D-Maine) and Rep. PeterStark (D-Calif.), among others...
...Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) said immigrants are often scapegoats for politicians when the economy goes bad. California Gov. Pete Wilson, Becerra charged, has exploited the hysteria surrounding illegal immigration...
...About half the bills that go through Congresshave a markedly prominent science or technicalcomponent," says Holton. "So people who havescience backgrounds are very badly needed inCongress or as staffers." Currently, the head ofthe Congressional committee on Science, Space andTechnology is George Brown, Jr. (D-Calif.) who hasa Ph.D in physics...
...Packwood is not the only one on the stand. As Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) asserts in The Globe, "The Senate's reputation is very much at stake." Whether or not this entire issue is actually relevant to the lives of average Americans is moot; that every major newspaper has plastered its pages with stores, news analyses and columns on the controversy will force Bob and Mary Jones of Peoria to think about Packwood and the Senate--and not, perhaps, about the real political issues facing them...