Word: metzenbaum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bearded monarch. Glenn is a difficult man to unpeel. After years of dealing with an accepting public, he drifts easily into platitudes. One keeps wondering what now drives him. Obviously the ambition is still great. For it, Glenn had swallowed his pride and invited even the hated Metzenbaum to his presidential announcement in New Concord in April...
...other gas bills, most opposing decontrol. Last week a group of 29 Congressmen announced plans for a measure to roll back some prices to January 1982 levels. In the Senate, Majority Leader Howard Baker has let it be known that he will not push the Reagan proposal, filibuster. Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat, has threatened to filibuster. Ironically, the bill's best chances may lie in its complexity, which makes it hard to grapple with, let alone reject. Says Corcoran: "One of its attractive features is that it has got everybody confused...
...your charts show the same thing?" asked Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, as the relentless catalogue continued. "I think you want to see some more, sir," Spinney replied with a burning intensity. "This is important...
...Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum used the threat of filibuster to block a host of self-serving bills of the kind that special interests try to sneak through at the end of a hectic session. As Rhode Island Republican John Chafee graphically described the process: "You can almost hear the hogs moving up to the trough-slurp, slurp, slurp." Among them were bills that would weaken regulation of beer distributors, doctors and lawyers, and the National Football League. None passed...
...John H. Sununu (R) No Race N.J. No Race Frank R. Lautenberg (D) N.M. Toney Anaya (D) Jeff Bingaman (D) N.Y. Mario M. Cuomo (D) Daniel P. Moynihan (D) N.C. No Race No Race N.D. No Race Quentin N. Burdick (D) OHIO Richard F. Celeste (D) Howard M. Metzenbaum (D) OKLA. George Nigh (D) No Race ORE. Victor G. Atiyeh (R) No Race PA. Dick Thomburgh (R) John Heinz (R) R.I. J. Joseph Garrahy (D) * S.C. Richard W. Riley (D) No Race S.D. William J. Janklow (R) No Race TENN. Lamar Alexander (R) Jim Sasser (D) TEX. Mark White...