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...phone call came for Nancy Kassebaum as soon as the Senator got back to her office last week from a trip home to Kansas. It was a fellow Republican -- Robert Packwood of Oregon. Were the wire-service accounts true? Had she really told the Wichita Eagle that . . . Yes, he was told. Said a source close to Kassebaum: "She felt the time had come" for him to resign...
...constituents weighed in with their representatives. In a single day, Senator Paul Simon's Washington office logged 1,000 calls. "In 18 years in the Senate," said Senator Patrick Leahy, "I had never seen so many telephone calls, spontaneously, in such a short period." Senator Nancy Kassebaum and Representative Marge Roukema lobbied Republican colleagues on the Judiciary Committee to quash the nomination...
Though it boasts prominent names, including Senators Arlen Specter, Nancy Kassebaum, John Chafee and Warren Rudman, the new assemblage faces rough going. Other moderates, reluctant to anger religious activists, declined to join the effort. Even the pugnacious Specter cautioned afterward that "it is important that we not pick fights or disagree with anyone." Ralph Reed, who runs Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, noted that a previous effort to mobilize centrists had flopped. "It's awfully hard to motivate moderates," Reed observed...
Founders of the Majority Coalition, including Senators Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, say they want to veer away from divisive issues such as abortion and homosexuality, instead focusing on the economy and foreign policy...
Politicians, Kaminer says, are overwhelmingly loyal to their parties. "It is still a general rule in politics that people will vote with their party," she says, noting that Nancy Kassebaum (R-Kan.), one of two women Senators at the time of the Thomas hearings, "voted as a Republican" in favor of Thomas' nomination...