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...Republican filibuster of campaign finance reform legislation, then majority leader Robert Byrd even went so far as to invoke a power that hadn't been used since 1942: he dispatched the Senate sergeant-at-arms to arrest missing Senators and escort them to the floor. Oregon's Bob Packwood was carried onto the floor at 1:19 a.m., after a scuffle in which he attempted to jam his office door and ended up reinjuring a broken finger. Byrd didn't give up until a record-setting eighth cloture vote failed to end the debate. (See 10 GOP congressional contenders...
Before Quayle's infamous 1988 debate with Lloyd Bentsen, stand-in Bob Packwood assured Quayle that Bentsen was a courteous man who wouldn't be rough on the young Senator, Schroeder says...
...PACKWOOD Dear Diary: Why didn't I simply resign...
...campaigns is directly linked to one of Ronald Reagan's pet projects, tax reform. The largest PAC contributors are usually the energy, real estate, banking and insurance industries, all of which benefit from tax breaks threatened by some of the tax plans under consideration. Not surprisingly, Oregon's Bob Packwood, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has received the most enthusiastic support: $2.6 million so far, $691,000 of it PAC money. Common Cause President Fred Wertheimer notes that PACS have donated $3.7 million to the 56 members of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees, more than...
...then Senator [Bob] Packwood heard I had these things, and said they ought to be put in the Smithsonian. So I looked, but I decided that they'd wind up behind some stuffed owl. Then Glenn Campbell of the Hoover Institution [of War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University] wanted 'em, so I gave 'em to him. A few months later, I got an appraisal from Sotheby's for a deduction on my income tax. Well, since then I've been fighting the IRS. This Wednesday we're having a hearing. Seems they sent the films to Ray Hackie...