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...WASHINGTON, BOB PACKWOOD GOES BRISKLY ABOUT HIS BUSINESS, DASHING from budget-strategy meetings with majority leader Bob Dole to hotels where he makes public speeches about tax policy and then onto the sets of Sunday morning talk shows. The Senator from Oregon appears to be at the pinnacle of his career. But his dignified demeanor is at odds with the image he conjured up two years ago: a whirling dervish of sexual voracity who planted his lips on the mouths of shocked female elevator attendants, secretaries and lobbyists, snatched at women's clothes or stuck his hands under their shirts...
...Packwood's road back to respectability has astonished most Washington bookmakers, who had once expected him to resign in disgrace. He was publicly accused shortly after his re-election in 1992 of having harassed more than two dozen women over his career. After stonewalling inquiries and then impugning the sexual histories of his accusers, he apologized for his behavior and entered an alcohol-rehabilitation program. When his Senate colleagues started shunning him, he kept on smiling and glad-handing. He also began to oppose issues that Dole opposed, such as requiring employers to pay for workers' health insurance. Packwood...
Still, his refurbished image--and the strength of his bonds with the Senate leadership--are about to be tested. After two years, the Senate Ethics Committee staff has concluded its Packwood investigation and presented its findings to the six Senators on the committee. "Now the committee is faced with doing something," said a source familiar with the operations. The committee staff has compiled thousands of pages of interviews, transcripts from Packwood's diaries and several days' worth of deposition from Packwood, who last appeared before the committee in February...
...Democratic filibusters. That strain could tear the lobbyists apart. The fealty of the Christian Coalition will be sorely tested, for example, if the Senate, as expected, pares the group's most cherished proposal: a new $500-a-child tax credit. The Home Builders would also revolt if Senator Bob Packwood, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, makes good on his threat to place new limits on the mortgage-interest deduction to pay for any cut in the tax on capital gains. To guard against those hazards, G.O.P. Senator Paul Coverdell, the Senate's lobbymeister, often attends the Boehner meeting...
Senator Bob Packwood (R.-Ore.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said tonight that the GOP does not have the votes to pass thebalanced budget amendmentin the Senate. "I think the Democrats are going to succeed in killing it," Packwood said...