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...Thomas, to Meese's wife Ursula; the 1978 Ethics in Government Act requires that any official paid more than $60,000 must list all such loans in financial-disclosure statements. Even Strom Thurmond, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, agreed that Meese and other witnesses should be called to face more questioning. Declared Thurmond: "There will be no cover...
...Senate confirmation of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese as Attorney General has suddenly shifted from a near certainty to an increasingly close call. Republican Strom Thurmond, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had closed the heated hearings two weeks ago after four days of testimony. But last week he reluctantly agreed to Democratic demands that Meese answer more questions before the committee voted on his nomination. "The longer the issue accelerates, the better and better his chances of being defeated become," said Meese's chief opponent, Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum...
...home-district concerns (Democratic Representatives Les Aspin of Wisconsin and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado and Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts). It also noted candidly that some of the best-known legislators had dipped into pork-barrel politics. Among them: Democratic Presidential Candidate Ernest Hollings and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, both of South Carolina (for fighting to keep Fort Jackson, near Columbia, open); Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas (for preventing the closing of a Housing and Urban Development Department office in Topeka); Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia (for protecting a money-losing Amtrak route through...
...concurrent resolution of both chambers that would take the commission out of the Executive Branch entirely and establish it in effect as an arm of Congress. It would have eight members, not six: four appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (currently South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, who is also chairman of the Judiciary Committee) and four by House Speaker Tip O'Neill. The resolution would not need the President's signature to go into effect...
Jesse Jackson seconds that warning. He is scouring the South, trying to enroll at least 180% of the region's 2.6 million "" unregistered black voters in an effort to unseat "pro-Reagan Democratic Boll Weevils and Republican Reaganites," including Senators Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Jackson has been openly flirting with the prospect of running for President and promotes the notion of a black candidacy as a way to maintain political drive. "We are going to the White House," Jackson says. "We are going from the guttermost to the uppermost." Running, he says...