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Viewers who have followed the Iranscam hearings have come to know not just Ollie and the lawyers but also a gallery of fascinating congressional characters who often were mere names before -- Inouye, Hamilton, Rudman, Mitchell, Boren, Hyde, Cohen, Hatch. Their questions, their demeanor and their quirks could be watched.They are now more recognizable than most of the "Seven Dwarfs" seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, who have largely been subjected to television's usual voice-over, snippety sound-bite techniques on the evening news. Of course, networks defend their sound bites by protesting how hard it is to condense...
...before Rehnquist announced the news from the bench on the last day of the court's current term. Reagan and a few top aides immediately began discussing names. The two leading candidates were Robert Bork, a federal appeals-court judge in the District of Columbia, and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. Reagan expressed a desire to get the advice of Attorney General $ Edwin Meese, who happened to be traveling, and further discussion was put off until Monday...
...week's end White House aides had disclosed the names of nine potential successors, but several appeared to face difficulties. Hatch and Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama, a conservative Democrat, are likely to run afoul of a provision in Article I of the Constitution that prevents any member of Congress from being appointed to a federal position that was voted a salary increase during that term of office. This may keep the Senators from taking court seats, since Congress approved a pay increase for Supreme Court Justices last February...
...corridors of Congress. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, is more receptive when labor buzzes in his ear than was his predecessor, Republican Robert Dole of Kansas. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, an avid defender of workers, has replaced the decidedly less sympathetic Utah Republican Orrin Hatch as chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Democrats who are friendly to or received campaign money from the labor movement are in positions to help along the bulk of the business-related legislation. Boasts AFL-CIO Executive Howard Samuel: "We control the committees and the agenda...
...With respect to the shredding and the other activities, which I have to admit do not look very good," Hatch began, joining in the laughter that followed. "Do you feel...that regardless of how bad they might look, do you think that we should hear Col. North's explanations for those actions before we draw any final conclusions...