Word: oregon
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...what war would mean to the U.S. and the world today, and thereby put pressure on a hawkish Administration to negotiate a cutback in nuclear arms with the Soviet Union. Some of that prodding is already coming from Congress. Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Mark Hatfield of Oregon two weeks ago introduced a resolution that calls for a freeze on the testing, production and further deployment of nuclear weapons by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The nonbinding measure has already attracted the support of 22 Senators and 150 Representatives...
...taxes, hold down spending and ensure a national defense that is able to preserve the peace." He said that he would be happy to consider any bipartisan plan that meets those standards, adding: "When we have honest differences, you can count on me to be willing to listen." Declared Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield after the meeting: "He brought a reconciliation in place of estrangement." Added Nevada's Paul Laxalt: "It was upbeat. An obvious show of unity...
...high stakes, for both the economy and his party. He has been meeting almost daily in his back office as a member of a group known as the Big Five to work on alternatives to the President's budget. The five include himself; Mark Hatfield of Oregon, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee; Paul Laxalt of Nevada, a Reagan intimate; Robert Dole of Kansas, head of the Finance Committee; and New Mexico's Pete Domenici, chairman of the Budget Committee. "My objective is to find a budget we can pass," says Baker, who is widely seen...
...resolution was the brainchild of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, who returned to Washington after the holiday recess last January deeply impressed with the burgeoning grass-roots movement against nuclear arms. Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon agreed to join him as sponsor, and the two lawmakers spent several weeks lining up other supporters. The single-page resolution calls upon both Washington and Moscow to "pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race," asks for a bilateral ban on the "testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads," and urges "major reductions" in stockpiled weapons...
...company's shareholders, the initials PG&E stand for Pacific Gas & Electric, the largest U.S. commercial supplier of electricity. But more and more of the California utility's customers prefer "Piggish, Greedy and Egotistic" instead. In recent months residents from Oregon to the Mexican border have been hit with unimaginably steep jumps in their electric bills...