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...Ohio Democrat: "With some U.S. Senators, being a conservative is not enough. You must come up to their standard of being an extreme right-wing ideologue." Added Senator Joseph Biden Jr., a Delaware Democrat: "The notion of an ideological litmus test is repugnant." Even Judiciary Committee Chairman Strom Thurmond, a conservative Republican, found the letter unacceptable. He announced that henceforth all members must confine their questioning of nominees to confirmation hearings...
...Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said the Meese nominations "has been subjected to some of the most intense and exhaustive scrutiny I have witnessed in my Senate career. In every case, the facts have clearly shown the Mr. Meese has violated no criminal laws and has violated no in his business and personal dealings...
...Thurmond, too, predicted that Messe would be confirmed by more than two-thirds of the 100 senators...
Last week's committee hearings on Meese's nomination as Attorney General turned out to be bumpier than expected. Judiciary Chairman Strom Thurmond, a Republican, had scheduled only one day of testimony. But Meese annoyed some Senators by refusing to concede that his personal business dealings with men who later went to work for the Government had been wrong in any way. More seriously, an internal memo from two lawyers in the Office of Government Ethics claiming that Meese had violated rules governing the conduct of federal employees was disclosed by the Wall Street Journal. As a result, the hearings...
...David Borens (D) 707 717 76 84 Bill Croner (R) 212.217 23 Oregon Marge Hendrikson (D) 71.992 34 28 E--Mark Hatheld (R) 140 713 66 Rhode Island E--Claiborne Pell (D) 276.245 73 99 Barbara Leonard (R) 103.294 27 South Carolina Melvin Purvis (D) 224.111 32 73 Thurmond (R) 464.279 66 South Dakota George Cunningham (D) 47,129 26 61 E--Barry Pressler (R) 134 720 74 Tennesee E--Albert Gore Jr. (D) 959,238 60 97 Victor Ashe (R) 545,432 34 Texas David Doggett (D) 1,384,033 41 Gramm (R) 1,985,818 59 Virginia...