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...benign nodule from his right vocal cord and missed his staff's planned deadline to enter the race officially by Memorial Day. There is also internal strife: top Wilson aide George Gorton went on "vacation" after Wilson tapped former Bush aide Craig Fuller to run the campaign. Phil Gramm of Texas, still smarting from the disclosure of his R-rated movie endeavor in 1974, has watched his approval ratings stay flat even as he becomes better known. Meanwhile, former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander was embarrassed by his failure so far to get an endorsement, as his aides had touted, from...
...Hampshire and vowed to help repeal the assault-weapons ban. Majority leaders, meanwhile, have to build links to the party's center to win Senate approval of such measures as the $1 trillion budget that promises some tax cuts but stops short of the $353 billion giveaway favored by Gramm. Candidate Dole's lurch to the right has led him to attempt perilous U-turns, such as his sudden endorsement of moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, that will create fodder for rivals' television commercials early next year. But Dole's job as majority leader keeps...
...included two committee Republicans: James Jeffords of Vermont and Bill Frist of Tennessee, a cardiologist who waited until minutes before the vote to publicly support the fellow Tennessean he has known for years. Now,TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumultynotes, Foster has to circumnavigate a promised filibuster by Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tx.), who has made the nominationan issue in his presidential campaign. With Frist's support, Foster now has 52 votes -- eight short of the number needed to block the move. But three "no" voters on the committee, including chairwoman Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, today said they would back...
Those elections, with the NRA's help, could be a turn for the worse for gun control. Bob Dole, the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has claimed himself to be the NRA's man in Congress. Senator Phil Gramm, also a presidential candidate, is another open supporter...
...presidential candidate Phil Grammadmits that $7,500 of his money somehow wound up financing a never-completed, R-rated movie called "Beauty Queens," but the Texas senator vehemently denies that he ever had any interest in financing pornography. Wednesday night, Gramm branded as false an account of the 1974 transaction by his former brother-in-law, George Caton, reported this week in The New Republic. One of the story's most damaging charges: that Gramm took an interest in movie investing after watching a film called "Truck Stop Women." TIME Austin bureau chief S.C. Gwynne notes that no one, including...