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...Jack Lousma (R) 768.912 52 Minnesota Joan Growe (D) 361.621 45 44 Rudy Boechwitz (R)' 439.225 55 Mississippi William Winter (D) 359.348 39 98 E--Thad Cochran (R) 564.681 61 Montana Max Baucus (D) 37.237 56 22 Chuck Cozzens (R) 27.509 41 Nebraska E--James J. Exon (D) 254.527 52 85 Nancy Hoch (R) 231.301 48 New Hampshire Norm D. Amours (D) 65.349 42 58 E--Gordon Humphrey (R) 90.434 58 New Jersey E--Bill Bradley (D) 1677.539 61 90 Mary Mochary (R) 927.231 36 New Mexico Judy Pratt (D) 119.198 28 85 E--Pete (R) 303.313 72 North Carolina...
...first farmer to be in financial difficulty primarily through no fault of your own." Thus wrote Senator James Exon, a Nebraska Democrat, in a letter that was probably intended to needle rather than console. The recipient: John Block, a millionaire hog farmer from Illinois who also happens to be Ronald Reagan's highly respected Secretary of Agriculture...
...Secretary's financial-disclosure statement for 1983, made public in May, indicated that the farming partnerships in which he has an interest obtained unsecured loans totaling about $2.5 million, most of which appear to have been assumed since his nomination to the Cabinet. Exon and Congressman Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat who is running for the Senate this year, wondered aloud whether banks were showing favoritism to Block at a time when, as Block's critics say, other farmers could not get credit on any terms...
Democratic critics insist they do not question Block's integrity, and indeed he had done nothing improper. Instead, Exon charges, the Secretary's difficulties prove the farm economy is in much worse shape than the Administration is willing to admit. Democrats grumble that the Farmers Home Administration, an arm of Block's department, refused to make or extend loans to other farmers at the very time banks were rolling over the Secretary's loans...
...Said Mark Andrews of North Dakota, who had been elected in the Reagan landslide of 1980: "These great savings turn out to be non-savings." Andrews dismissed the lower fuel costs as "just a windfall from some sheik." Nor did conservative Democrats give any promise of support. Complained James Exon of Nebraska: "Not a single bullet has been cut." Members of both parties remained unconvinced that the nation could afford the buildup Reagan envisions in the face of a fiscal 1983 budget deficit that now approaches $208 billion...