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...much needed reforms in health care, the economy and crime, the 100 men and women of the Senate are reenacting the spectacle of 1992's Clarence Thomas hearings. This time, instead of a nominee for the Supreme Court, the accused is one of the Senate's own: Sen. Bob Packwood, a Republican from Oregon who, like Thomas, is accused of sexual misconduct. In question are thousands of pages of diaries covering about a quarter century of Packwood's life...
...Senate, by a vote of 96-4, passed a resolution authorizing the Ethics Committee to seek a federal court ruling to force Packwood to give the committee the records it wants. The diaries, the committee maintains, will answer the charges of sexual harassment and give them the necessary information to investigate other possible, but unnamed, crimes. Packwood offered to allow the committee to view only the parts relating to the specific charges, but the amendment from Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) which would have done just this was rejected...
...Packwood's Tangled...
...bombshell speech on the Senate floor, Oregon Republican Bob Packwood declared that the ethics committee investigating him on charges of sexual misconduct should not subpoena his diaries -- because that would raise serious privacy issues and because the diaries contain accounts of the amorous affairs of other members. In a blistering counterattack, the committee declared it needed the diaries to look into possible crimes unrelated to the harassment accusations. A flustered Senate considers whether to seek enforcement of the subpoena this week...
...PACKWOOD...