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...Senate ethics committee heeds its lawyer's recommendation that Democratic Senator John Glenn of Ohio and Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona be cleared, for insufficient evidence, of accusations that they granted improper favors to former S&L owner Charles H. Keating Jr. That would leave Arizona's Dennis DeConcini, Michigan's Donald Riegle and California's Alan Cranston, all Democratic Senators. Keating and his associates contributed $1.4 million to the five men, who intervened on his behalf with federal regulators. The committee, which has heard from Glenn, McCain and DeConcini, is expected to vote this week on whether...
...strike would have to include his resignation. "What Durenberger did was all calculated, not something he fell into," says one political consultant. "How could the Senate sweep it under the rug?" The rug is already bulging with scandals: ethics investigations are proceeding against Senators Alan Cranston, John McCain, Dennis DeConcini, Donald Riegle and John Glenn for their ties to savings and loan operator Charles Keating; and New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato is under scrutiny for handing out federal housing grants to some campaign contributors...
...DENNIS DECONCINI (1994). The Arizona Democrat's approval rating has never quite recovered from his damaging association with the S&L king. He will hang on only if there is an outbreak of amnesia...
...from serving longer than three years in any six-year period. More recently, Presidents Truman and Eisenhower advocated a cutoff, as did the 1988 Republican Party platform. First-time candidates, too, often warm to the notion, but most back off after election. For addiction to office, Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini takes the prize. A staple of DeConcini's successful 1988 campaign for a third six-year term was his claim that he could better fight for a twelve-year limitation if he was in the Senate for 18 years...
...called its retirement communities -- is the state that said no to daylight saving time, turned its back on the Martin Luther King holiday and was the last to come around on Medicaid and the interstate highway system. It is home to two-fifths of the Keating Five (Senators Dennis DeConcini and John McCain), to Barry Goldwater (considered left of center by many natives), and to the nation's first impeached Governor in 59 years, Evan Mecham. It is not a place for the politically faint of heart...