Word: ohio
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...Howard M. Metzenbaum (D--Ohio) stated the argument bluntly in an April 23 New York Times editorial. A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he supported a proposal to condemn membership in discriminatory clubs among judicial appointees...
Will the Keating Five become the Keating Three? Maybe, if the Senate ethics committee heeds its lawyer's recommendation that Democratic Senator John Glenn of Ohio and Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona be cleared, for insufficient evidence, of accusations that they granted improper favors to former S&L owner Charles H. Keating Jr. That would leave Arizona's Dennis DeConcini, Michigan's Donald Riegle and California's Alan Cranston, all Democratic Senators. Keating and his associates contributed $1.4 million to the five men, who intervened on his behalf with federal regulators. The committee, which has heard from Glenn, McCain...
...White House sent other small but unmistakable signals of its displeasure to G.O.P. renegades. Two nights before the vote, Ohio Congressman Ralph Regula had planned to impress some constituents by taking them to the presidential box at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to see a play. But that afternoon he got a call from the White House congressional liaison office inquiring about his position on the budget plan. "Leaning against," he replied. His tickets were canceled. New York Congressman Gerald Solomon complained that Bush had telephoned him at his home at 6:45 a.m. to solicit his support...
...that capital gains be separated from a larger deficit-reduction package. His House counterpart, Bob Michel, joined in. "We're in trouble," admitted a Bush adviser. "We got no support." Reeling from the defections, the Administration lashed out at the Democrats. In a campaign speech for G.O.P. candidates in Ohio, Bush hyperbolically insisted that if the dreaded sequester were to occur, "the Democratic Congress knows that it will be held accountable." Retorted House Democratic whip Bill Gray: "We ask him to stop acting like a party chairman and to start acting like a President...
...most famous definition of pornography is still the eyeball test once offered by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart: "I know it when I see it." A grand jury in Hamilton County, Ohio, figured they knew what they were seeing in Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center last April. Citing pictures that were part of a retrospective of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's work, they brought criminal charges against the museum and its director, Dennis Barrie, for pandering obscenity...