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...perhaps the most remarkable filibuster in Senate history, first-term Democrats James Abourezk of South Dakota and Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio turned the chamber into a marathon slumber party that kept the Senators up until dawn the first day, late the following night, and threatened to continue this week. Their stated objective: to block any move to lift the federal ceiling on the price of natural gas sold interstate. The ordeal was fresh evidence that an independent and unpredictable Senate is defying its own leadership and the White House. The week also marked the emergence of Byrd...
That position was not acceptable to Abourezk and Metzenbaum, who flatly oppose any decontrol. They believe the increase proposed by Carter-28? per m.c.f. -would be an unnecessary burden on consumers without significantly increasing the supply of natural gas. Said Abourezk: "If the Senate votes for deregulation, even if it's lost in conference, the gas boys will be back next year and the next and the next. If we can get both houses on record against it, that should settle...
...shock waves are being felt in Washington. Youngstown Mayor Jack Hunter, Ohio Senators John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum and a hastily formed caucus of Congressmen representing steel communities urged President Carter to formulate a national policy to help the steel industry. Imports, especially from Japan, have badly hurt the domestic industry. At week's end five busloads of steelworkers from Sheet & Tube demonstrated at the White House and on Capitol Hill, carrying signs like STEEL VALLEY TURNING TO GHOST TOWN. What most of the protesters want are quotas on imported steel and an easing of the antipollution rules that...
Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Senator, Ohio Washington...
...easily. So did Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, the Watergate committee's Republican hair shirt. But one of the Senate's most famous names will be missing. In a stunning defeat, Robert Taft Jr., son and namesake of Ohio's "Mr. Republican," lost to Millionaire Businessman Howard Metzenbaum, whom he had defeated six years ago in another close battle...