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...spokesman for Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), the sponsor of the Senate bill, said yesterday, "We're doing everything we can to get this bill passed this year...
...former wife of Sen. Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.) asked the court Monday to charge him with contempt of court for allegedly failing to live up to the settlement that ended their 31-year marriage...
ONCE THE deregulation becomes law, Americans will wind up paying dramatically higher prices for their energy. And it is not even certain that there will be much more of this energy: some critics of the bill, like Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), contend that the amount of new gas generated by higher prices will be marginal at best. Whether there is substantially more gas available or not, however, the fact remains that it will go only to those consumers who can afford to pay the higher prices. The bill is sure to compound consumer burdens to the breaking point...
...PRESIDENT should have nothing to worry about, since arm-twisting by Byrd and Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), floor leader of the bill, have beaten back efforts to kill it by a filibuster. For a time, it looked as though deregulation might be defeated by a coalition of consumer states, led by Sen. Howard R. Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) and Sen. James Abourezk (D-S.D.), and joined by right-wingers like Sen. Clifford Hansen (D-Wyo.) who want total deregulation or none at all. But eventually administration supporters garnered enough votes to invoke cloture and kill the kind...
...three days at the end of August, Boston's convention hotel was the home of the National Governor's Association Convention, an event which starred such luminaries as Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, Gov. William G. Milliken of Michigan, Gov. Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire and Seabrook fame, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), nuclear reactors, health insurance, anonymous men and women dressed to kill, and above all, the star of stars--Proposition...