Word: packwood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senator Robert Packwood, Commerce Committee chairman and the bill's chief Senate sponsor, angered by the industry's aggressive lobbying efforts, recently warned its officials: "You're asking to die by this sword if you want to live by this sword. Congress will rise up in wrath against you." The bill is now given a better than even chance of passage...
...past 39 months. "The Administration's economic policies helped create the problem, and the Administration is obligated to help solve it." The proposal to lower the tax cap to $160 drew some hoots. "The Administration is making a terrible philosophical and political mistake," Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon warned Stockman. "Eventually [the public] will turn and snap at us. You're going down the wrong path if you want to cut off debate on national health insurance...
...abortion tapdance consists of a lot of passionate rhetoric and a voting record that doesn't match. Heckler has been a staunch right-to-lifer since the year one, so much so that Sen. Bob Packwood (R.-Ore) became one of the only three senators to vote against Heckler during her confirmation hearings for her new federal post. When Packwood, who supports abortion, asked her at the hearings whether she believed Congress ought to use legislation to reverse the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing it. Heckler engaged in some top-notch hedging. "The reason I am so bothered." Packwood said...
...year income tax cut from next July to January had no chance of passage. In spite of that retreat, the President showed that he retains plenty of backstage clout. His friend and close Senate ally, Nevada's Paul Laxalt, led a successful drive to remove Oregon Senator Bob Packwood from chairmanship of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Packwood played a major role in helping engineer the reelection of every Republican Senator in November, thereby maintaining the G.O.P.'s eight-vote margin in the Senate, but he had aroused the President's anger by complaining too publicly that...
...candidates, the lineup of the Senate had not changed a bit. The breakdown remained 54 Republicans and 46 Democrats. The G.O.P. had feared that it might lose the chamber it had seized in 1980, or at least see its margin over the Democrats narrowed. "Needless to say," said Bob Packwood of Oregon, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, "I'm relieved...