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Most legislators enthusiastically agreed. But a few cautioned that the hard work is still to be done. "He's setting himself up for having to produce," noted Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "That looks like a tall order." Scoffed Jimmy Carter's arms-control adviser, Paul Warnke, "The music was much better than the lyrics. There wasn't much substance to the words...
...joked Congressman Bill Nelson, 43, who is training at Houston before blasting off on the space shuttle in three weeks. "In addition to learning how to use the toilet, I have another purpose. I want to understand how NASA works and how it's been successful," said the Florida Democrat, who by no coincidence is chairman of the Space Science and Applications subcommittee. His special assignment during the five-day flight will be to grow crystals in space for cancer research. But first he will have to learn to be a bit more careful. Despite warnings about the disorientation...
...House killed in committee a voucher bill similar to Bennett's. California Democrat Augustus Hawkins, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, vows the same fate for the new measure, which he brands "a cruel hoax on the nation's very poorest families...
...some controversy. The Texas congressman has maintained that rather than face continued questions in the press, he wants to make his case to the House Ethics Committee, which is in charge of investigating if members violate House rules. That committee didn't meet for several months this year because Democrats were protesting GOP changes to its rules. Republicans reversed those rule changes, but now the committee is fighting over how its staff should be organized. The Ethics Committee's Chairman, Rep. Doc Hastings, wants to put one of his staffers in a position as co-director of the committee...
...Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate minority leader, has pushed proposals to enhance security, only to be defeated in the face of industry opposition. One bill would have required plants to defend themselves against a 9/11-size enemy force, perhaps aided by air-and-water-based attacks. Another would have created a federal Nuclear Security Force and a 20-member mock terrorist team to test the plants regularly, The NRC and industry representatives argued against such a federalized force on the ground that the close cooperation between plant operators and guards would be lost if federal employees were protecting the plants. "That...