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...Senate ethics committee said it had found "substantialcredible evidence" that Sen. Bob Packwood of Oregon abused his officeand engaged in a pattern of sexual misconduct spanning two decades. A five-page committee report released today details 18 cases of alleged sexual harassment over 21 years involving 17 women. The incidents allegedly took place in Packwood's Capitol Hill offices, a Senate elevator, his home, on the campaign trail in Oregon, in a motel room and elsewhere. "With details like 'forcing his tongue in her mouth six times,'" says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty, "it's incredibly damaging." The committee also...
Women's groups, and especially the "Packwood 26," as his accusers came to be known, have been angered by the committee's pace. "His resurrection is a casebook example of crisis management," said Patricia Reilly, a spokeswoman for the National Women's Political Caucus who worked with the accusers. "As time goes by, the justice dwindles away. As in everything in Washington, if there isn't a sense of urgency, nothing gets done...
Even if, as many sources predict, the Ethics Committee merely issues a harsh reprimand, Packwood still faces a probe by the Justice Department into whether he used his influence with a lobbyist to get a job for his wife at the time, and whether he altered his diaries before submitting them to the Ethics Committee. The Justice Department is waiting for committee action before proceeding...
...Still, Packwood is not without friends. Since January 1993, he has raised $520,934.50 in private donations to a legal-defense fund. He may also be able to count on Dole, who has said the case should be dealt with swiftly. But neither Dole--nor the Republican revolution--is likely to be hurt politically if Packwood resigns or takes a leave of absence to argue his case in court. "Legislatively, I don't know how much difference any one Senator's absence or presence makes," says Dave Mason, a political analyst with the conservative Heritage Foundation. "Packwood is clearly...
...fellow leaders balked at the request late last week, calculating that it is riskier to rewrite the contract than simply to lose a vote on it. Besides, Gingrich knows that the prospects for tax cuts of any kind appear to be fading in the Senate. Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon returned from a weekend retreat with his Senate Finance Committee and pronounced tax cuts all but dead. "What all of us have discovered when we go home," he said, "is that the public, over and over, is saying to us, As between the two, we'd rather have deficit reduction...