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...elected Democratic leader," he said defensively, and for good measure added that "there would have been an amendment if there had been a real President" in the White House. Party hard-liners still grumbled that Dole could have done more to force the hand of his fellow Republican Hatfield...
Senate Republicans will not strip veteran Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) of his powerful Appropriations Committee chairmanship. Some GOP Senators were calling for Hatfield's head as retaliation for his vote against thebalanced budget amendment. TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says a generational split surfaced in a tense, closed meeting this afternoon, with Hatfield's longtime colleagues opposing the harsh punishment. A handful of Hatfield opponents, notably GOP Senate freshmen Connie Mack of Florida and Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, were outnumbered. But Tumulty says their anger touched off a sharp debate on how to punish wayward party leaders...
...commission, co-chaired by Senators Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii (who lost an arm in the war), and including grandson David Roosevelt, is hunkering down. But the tide seems to be against their view: that F.D.R.'s deception of the 1930s-politically incorrect now but necessary, he believed, for the politics of the time-should be perpetuated in a monument intended for the ages. "We all need to understand what it was this man conquered,'' says Goodwin. "If Franklin Roosevelt were to come back, I think he would want his disability to be shown in some...
Lawmakers from both parties defended Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) as GOP members sought revenge against the only Republican senator who voted against the balanced budget amendment. Several GOP Senate freshmen, led by Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), have called for Hatfield's ouster as chairman of the powerful appropriations committee, but Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole today seemed reluctant to make such a harsh move. Other, more senior Republicans said Hatfield should not be condemned for a vote of conscience. "It's not a healthy concept, in my opinion, to think everyone has to fit into the same keyhole...
...balancing the annual budget by 2002. Because a two-thirds majority is required, the Republicans need 67 votes to pass it in the Senate. The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the states. All but one of the 53 Senate Republicans support the amendment. Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) is opposed. Others who remain undecided are Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Wendell Ford (D-Ky.) and John Breaux...