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...address to the GOP governors, Bush said that in addition to engaging in early deficit-reduction talks with Congress, he planned to convene a conference of all 50 governors to talk about education...
...election results, aside from Dan Quayle ascending to the vice presidency, was the defeat of three-term Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.). The defeat of Weicker, an iconoclast who came to national prominence in 1973 as a member of the Senate Watergate Committee, represents a loss to the GOP and to the nation...
DURING his 18 years in the Senate, Weicker established himself as a maverick who challenged his party's leadership and its increasingly conservative slant. Weicker fought the Reagan Administration over its budget priorities and took on the GOP right wing on such issues as civil rights, abortion, school prayer and busing...
...despite the loss of Republican Senate candidate Joe Malone--who was defeated overwhelmingly by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54--GOP politicos predicted the resurgence of Republicanism in Massachusetts...
There was a predictable amount of Dukakis bashing from the Republicans, who have gone more than a decade without a GOP senator or governor in the state...