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While many Republican senators respondedcautiously, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), amember of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said."You like to think people who are appointed to theSupreme Court respect the law." And one seniorDemocratic congressional aide said Ginsburg was "agoner because the Republicans will not be able toabide him as their nominee...
...American Conservative Union, complained that he had urged the President to swing through the South to lobby for Bork during the dog days of summer. "Instead," griped Casey, "he was sent off to Santa Barbara for 30 days to chop wood and ride horses." Iowa's Republican Senator Charles Grassley, a Reagan ally who voted for Bork on the Judiciary Committee, denounced the White House for being "asleep at the switch" last summer...
Last week a General Dynamics spokesman declared that the company can now turn to the "more normal activities of managing the business." But maybe not. Senators William Proxmire of Wisconsin and Charles Grassley of Iowa have demanded all memorandums and correspondence from the General Dynamics probe for their own inquiry. Grumbled Grassley: "It is abundantly clear we do not have efficient and effective enforcement against defense fraud...
Republican incumbent Senator Charles Grassley won in an easy race. In a much tighter contest for governor, incumbent Terry Branstad edged Democrat Lovell Junkins...
...blow that finally doomed Administration lobbying efforts came from South Africa. In telephone conversations with two farm-state G.O.P. Senators, Iowa's Charles Grassley and Nebraska's Edward Zorinsky, Pik Botha warned that imposition of sanctions would result in retaliatory measures from Pretoria. South Africa would not only refuse to import any more American wheat (it bought 256,000 tons in the year ending last June) but also block grain deliveries to neighboring black states that depend on South Africa for commercial transport. Both Senators had been buttonholed near the Senate cloakroom by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, a friend...