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Last June, Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) threatened to introduce legislation abolishing the Office of Civil Rights if it did not show signs of improvement. And Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) concluded in a letter to a ranking senator last August that the office is "incompetent or dragging its feet...
...bill is essentially useless," said Rep. Carlos Moorhead (R-Calif.), who said Republicans would vote for it in committee only as in symbolic support of the flag...
Later in the debate, Republicans complained about the use of material that appeared in the FBI report and was damaging to Tower. Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif) said Tower had been "trashed" by such material when it was leaked to the news media, and said the leakers never mentioned exculpatory information that also appeared in the FBI report...
Congressman Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), who is co-chair of the Republican Platform Committee, was also in town, questioning the sincerity of Democrats who talk about fiscal responsibility. If Dukakis is elected President, Lewis says it will be "business as usual for the liberal Democrats: spending money and raising taxes." Lewis said his Democratic colleagues have "spent their careers building programs and spending money...
...Sistine Chapel, but it's not a bad paint job," said Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., who played a major role in writing the bill...