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...Weicker Jr. (R) DEL. No Race William V. Roth Jr. (R) FLA. Bob Graham (D) Lawton Chiles (D) GA. Joe Frank Harris (D) No Race HAWAII George Ariyoshi (D) Spark M. Marsunaga (D) IDAHO * No Race ILL. Adlai E. Stevenson III (D) No Race IND. No Race Richard G. Lugar (R) IOWA Terry Branstad (R) No Race KAN. John Carlin (D) No Race KY. No Race No Race LA. No Race No Race ME. Joseph E. Brennan (D) George J. Mitchell (D) MD. Harry R. Hughes (D) Paul S. Sarbanes (D) MASS. Michael S. Dukakis (D) Edward M. Kennedy...
Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana, sponsor of the Senate bill, insists that it will produce 400,000 new housing starts and provide 700,000 jobs. Most experts, however, predict that the measure will create, at best, a few thousand more homes. Even the National Association of Realtors, which would benefit from the bill, doubts that the program would work. Said Jack Carlson, chief economist for the trade group: "Getting down the deficit is the only solution...
...Stevens and persuaded him to apologize to Nunn. The three of them then joined to calm Levin down. Baker was eventually able to forge a consensus: a compromise resolution to keep programs funded for four months was passed, 60 to 35. Said Baker's Senate confidant, Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana: "He just remains congenial until the other side runs...
...shepherd a budget-cutting revolution through Congress. The most egre gious example is the Clinch River breeder reactor, a costly ($3.2 billion) boondoggle that both Jimmy Carter and, initially, Ronald Reagan tried to scuttle. Baker was "in every direction" trying to win votes for this pet project, says Senator Lugar. Baker, a former member of the old Atomic Energy Committee, says he truly believes in breeder reactors, which produce as much fuel as they consume or more, despite the skepticism now expressed by most nuclear-energy scientists...
Pressure to begin strategic arms talks has been building for months. It intensified last week when Henry Jackson, a leading Democratic hawk, and seven other influential Senators (Robert Byrd, Sam Nunn, Lloyd Bentsen, John Warner, Howard Baker, Richard Lugar and Wilham Cohen) circulated a bipartisan "Dear Colleague" letter, urging the U.S. to negotiate with the Soviets "a long-term mutual and verifiable nuclear forces freeze at equal and sharply reduced level of forces." The resulting resolution, signed within hours by 24 more Senators, was designed to counter a more radical measure introduced two weeks ago by Senators Edward Kennedy...