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...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...
...second approach offers what both sides profess to want: a coalition including Democratic as well as Republican leaders. Says Republican Senator Robert Packwood of Oregon: "To the extent the President wants to get part of his program, he has to give. Now that he has a House that's adverse, there have to be negotiations." Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker feels compromise will be especially important on the defense budget. Says he: "There certainly will be a major effort to trim defense spending, and it will be cut more than the Administration wants...
...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...
...Senate by failing to win passage of the antiabortion bill. "We're closer to victory than ever before." But others felt that the movement had come as close as it ever will. "This was the last great push for the Moral Majority types," said Senator Bob Packwood, the moderate Oregon Republican who led the bipartisan filibuster against Helms. "They've peaked...