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Debate in the House chamber did give the two plenty to write about, for Fenwick remains true to the spirit of her party, supporting President Reagan's economic bills and sharing his belief that less government is best...
...liberal views helped Fenwick strike up a special friendship with former New York representative Bella Abzug, an odd-couple combination, to say the least. Fenwick the aristocratic, cultured woman of wealth--an old friend of the Rockefellers and the Dillons--and Abzug, the tough and sassy daughter of a New York meat market owner...
That kind of approach has led observers to call Fenwick a liberal Republican, a label she scorns. "What is liberal about that?" she asks in reference to her support of civil rights and legal aid for homosexuals and women seeking abortions. "When you really think about it, these are actually conservative positions. I'm neither homosexual nor pregnant, but the Constitution guarantees everyone--no matter who or what he is--equal rights. I'm just sticking to the Constitution...
...legislator who calls the shots as she sees them. Her votes are cast only after absorbing hours of testimony and debate, as well as relying on the "practical experience" she acquired attending numerous community meetings and rallies as a New Jersey legislator. Probably the worst insult to hurl at Fenwick, other than to call her insensitive, would be to suggest that she is impractical. Freshman representative Barney Frank found that out when he accused her of being "theoretical." Fenwick, who had yielded the floor to the Massachusetts congressman during a House debate, reacted as though she had been accused...
...Will the gentlewoman yield? I believe the gentlewoman misunderstood me," Frank cut in, but Fenwick was still raging. "I never talk from theory...