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...move by young G.O.P. conservatives to dump Oregon's Mark Hatfield from the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee fizzled in a closed-door party caucus. The conservatives were angry at Hatfield, who voted against the balanced-budget amendment--the lone Republican holdout...
G.O.P. SENATOR MARK HATFIELD Takes heat, stays in kitchen after anti-balanced budget vote...
...former colleagues in the House. "The Senate as a body was designed to slow things down. I hear that all the time," the young conservative grumbles. "Fine. Deliberate-but act!" Santorum and Florida Republican Connie Mack forced a party caucus last week to consider stripping Appropriations chairman Mark Hatfield of his rank for having refused to cast the vote that could have passed the balanced-budget amendment. All they got for their effort was a promise to study ways of improving party discipline in the future...
...dealing and politicking over Social Security--the perennial political hot potato--the Senate failed to pass a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. The Republican leadership came up one vote shy of the two-thirds majority required when they failed to persuade the one Republican holdout, Oregon's Mark Hatfield, or either of North Dakota's two Democratic Senators to switch sides. The Democratic leadership had little time to celebrate its victory, however; the day after the vote, Colorado Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a longtime supporter of the amendment, announced he was switching his party affiliation to the G.O.P...