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...especially crucial that Kennedy be re-elected in order to prevent gridlock, while maintaining a Democratic majority in the Senate so that control is not turned over to Republicans like Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and Orrin Hatch...
...Strom Thurmond, the nation's oldest Senator at 91, was checked into a hospital last night and remained there today after complaining of lightheadedness Monday. But doctors at Walter Reed Army Hospital may release the South Carolina Republican tonight. No cause of the malaise was named, but the piss-and-vinegar solon had been traveling for several days, then skipped lunch...
...filibuster. Currently, they're threatening to filibuster health-care legislation. If it feels as if we're living through a filibuster epidemic, we are: two-thirds of the nation's filibusters have taken place since rule changes in the mid-'60s made the tactic easier to pull off. Strom Thurmond holds the individual record (24 hrs., 18 min., against the Civil Rights...
...Arthur Caplan of the University of Minnesota argues that children have a right to a mother who won't be heading to a nursing home just as they are heading for high school. But what about men on Metamucil and pacemakers who become fathers? Senator Strom Thurmond, who had four children in his 60s and 70s, and Charlie Chaplin, who was 73 when he fathered his last child, did not have to seek approval when they sired their offspring. By the thousands, men over 45 exercise their perpetual rights to fatherhood, marrying and remarrying, having first and second families, without...
...pounding was relentless. As the latest Clinton Administration nominee sat before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, Senators took their turns delivering the blows. First, South Carolina's nonagenarian Strom Thurmond took up the cudgel, blustering about what he called "a compelling prima facie case that ((Morton Halperin)) is unsuited for any position in the Pentagon" and calling him a man of "deeply flawed judgment" who has failed "to create an impression of reliability or trustworthiness." Then John McCain of Arizona spoke of "profoundly disturbing questions about Halperin's judgment, his credibility, and his suitability to hold a position...