Word: santorum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard as he fought to get into the Senate, Pennsylvania freshman Rick Santorum is exasperated at its ways and now finds himself looking wistfully at his former colleagues in the House. "The Senate as a body was designed to slow things down. I hear that all the time," the young conservative grumbles. "Fine. Deliberate-but act!" Santorum and Florida Republican Connie Mack forced a party caucus last week to consider stripping Appropriations chairman Mark Hatfield of his rank for having refused to cast the vote that could have passed the balanced-budget amendment. All they got for their effort...
...retaliation for his vote against thebalanced budget amendment. TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says a generational split surfaced in a tense, closed meeting this afternoon, with Hatfield's longtime colleagues opposing the harsh punishment. A handful of Hatfield opponents, notably GOP Senate freshmen Connie Mack of Florida and Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, were outnumbered. But Tumulty says their anger touched off a sharp debate on how to punish wayward party leaders in the future. She also warns that Hatfield still may not get off scott-free. "Bob Dole is not going to forget this," she adds. "His whole premise...
Lawmakers from both parties defended Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) as GOP members sought revenge against the only Republican senator who voted against the balanced budget amendment. Several GOP Senate freshmen, led by Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), have called for Hatfield's ouster as chairman of the powerful appropriations committee, but Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole today seemed reluctant to make such a harsh move. Other, more senior Republicans said Hatfield should not be condemned for a vote of conscience. "It's not a healthy concept, in my opinion, to think everyone has to fit into the same keyhole...
...group opposes in a bad light. The '94 Christian Coalition Voter Guide for the Pennsylvania Senate race boiled down the complex subject of the Clinton health-care plan by saying that Democratic incumbent Harris Wofford supported "Federal Government control of health care" and that his opponent, Republican Rick Santorum, opposed it. Wofford lost...
...support to Senator Dianne Feinstein rather than Republican Michael Huffington. Ross Perot extended his vendetta against the Bush family across the generations by backing Texas Governor Ann Richards over First Son George W. Bush. In Pennsylvania, Teresa Heinz, widow of Republican Senator John Heinz, dismissed G.O.P. upstart Rick Santorum in favor of the more patrician Democrat Harris Wofford, calling Santorum "short on public service and even shorter on accomplishments." In the G.O.P., at least, the center would not hold...