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Brown disputes the current notion that few Democrats are willing to run against George Bush next year. The local party says it has received feelers from Senators Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Tom Harkin of Iowa, as well as Virginia Governor Doug Wilder and Jesse Jackson...
...Senator Tom Harkin...
...spotlight. In the Senate the towering Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York stood in the back row in brown suede shoes to plead his case. Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy, not so long ago a wild political youngster, rose as a silver-haired patriarch. Near him, Iowa's Tom Harkin, popping pills to settle an unruly stomach, his hair a little too long for a true corn-belt troubadour, watched and waited to gather up some of the moment's somber glory. History is made of such things in such times...
...Harkin wanted to introduce a resolution co-sponsored by fellow Democrat Brock Adams of Washington that would prohibit Bush from attacking Iraqi forces without "explicit authorization" from Congress. Mitchell looked surprised and angry. Though for weeks he had been asserting in public that only Congress has the constitutional power to declare war, he was anxious to avoid a debate before the Jan. 9 meeting between Baker and Aziz in Geneva. "This is the place," he replied to Harkin, then added, "I don't think it's the time." But among the rank and file, the attitude...
...next day, Mitchell had acquiesced. A full-fledged debate on the Harkin-Adams resolution began in the Senate, where Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy pointedly warned, "We have not seen such arrogance in a President since Watergate." The fight spread to the House, despite Speaker Tom Foley's efforts to contain it. Democrats Richard Durbin of Illinois and Charles Bennett of Florida announced that they had enlisted 51 supporters for a resolution similar to the one Harkin and Adams had introduced in the Senate. Though neither resolution would be binding, both represent a clear message to the President that he must...