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...colleagues found him personally aloof, they also knew no one worked harder to ease their lives, rescheduling votes around fund raisers, personal trips, the school play. Dole liked to hold court in the cloakroom, ear to the ground, counting votes, making wisecracks. Larry Pressler, an occasionally clueless South Dakotan, was a favorite target. Dole once came down to the Senate well during a vote and said out loud, so everyone could hear, "Don't know which way to go on this one. How did Pressler vote?" Even the clerks would start to laugh. But then it would be Dole...
...released in March noted that air terrorism remains a grave concern, and that "terrorists were aware both of airport vulnerabilities and how existing security measures could be defeated." After being briefed last week on these concerns, including those raised by the inspector general's new report, Republican Senator Larry Pressler, chairman of the Senate transportation panel, was dismayed, and acknowledged that he was himself "nervous" about flying. "There's got to be an understanding that we need better airport security, that we're going to have to pay for it, and that it's not going...
...billion. "This is a big, big corporate welfare project," Safire says Dole told him. "Here we're cutting Medicaid and doing all the painful things while we lend them the spectrum for 12 years. Why shouldn't they pay for it?" Dole and Senate Commerce Committee chairman Larry Pressler have argued that these channels could easily be rented or auctioned. Though powerful media lobbying has squelched that idea on Capitol Hill and in the Administration up to now, TIME's John Dickerson reports the issue will likely be revisited now that Dole has taken a strong stand. "Contrary to many...
Unlike many of the flashier aspects of the Contract With America, the Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation Act of 1995 has garnered little attention from the media. Floor-managed by the lightweight Senator Pressler of South Dakota, the Act passed the Senate and the House by wide margins. Given the complexity of the technological issues involved, it is unlikely that the American public will pay much attention to upcoming wrangling between President Clinton and Congressional leaders over the bill's disposition. However, this issue is exceptionally important to the future management of communicative interactions in the American public and private sphere...
...jockeying over reform has caused tempers to flare. Some Senators saw evidence of overly strenuous industry lobbying last month, when Senator Larry Pressler of South Dakota, chairman of the committee that drafted the Senate's version of the bill, read into the record a letter from a Time Warner senior vice president, Timothy Boggs. The letter involved a contentious pricing provision favored by small cable companies and opposed by entertainment providers Time Warner and Viacom. It indicated that Time Warner's HBO unit had agreed to provide programs to a group of small cable-TV companies, including one in Pressler...