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...none. Where Kennedy is experienced, Romney is puerile. Kennedy has proved that he has the influence and respect in the places he needs it--the halls and chambers of Congress--to get things done. Noted as a coalition builder, Kennedy maintains a close relationship with Kansas Republican Nancy Landon Kassebaum, CLHR's ranking minority member...
...Kennedy loses, either Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) or Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-Kansas) will take his place as chair of the labor and human resources committee--depending on which party wins the Senate majority...
Politicians are getting in on the action. A few weeks ago, Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum fired off a letter to Robert McCormick Adams, secretary of the Smithsonian. She called the proposal "a travesty" and suggested that "the famed B-29 be displayed with understanding and pride in another museum. Any one of three Kansas museums...
...Kassebaum, the nation's senior female Senator, thus became the first Republican to ask for the resignation of the embattled Packwood, who faces charges of sexual harassment from 26 women. "I believe it will be increasingly difficult, if not impossible, for Senator Packwood to effectively perform the duties of his office," Kassebaum declared. She was only the second Senator, after Robert Byrd, to demand openly that Packwood quit...
...Kassebaum's decision followed testimony of another woman Packwood had assumed was in his corner. Last week Cathy Wagner Cormack, his secretary of 24 years, testified that Packwood had altered portions of his diaries, which she transcribed from audiotape to paper. The Senate ethics committee subpoenaed the diaries in October -- a move that Packwood has been fighting in court. Cormack told committee lawyers that something was amiss after Packwood took the tapes from her this fall. "When they were brought back to my possession, after he had taken them," she said, "I just . . . I sensed that there might have been...