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...Justice Department announced an independent review of check-kiting practices on the Hill. Adding to the embarrassment, at least three Democrats -- Charles Wilson of Texas, former Congressmen Jim Bates of California and Doug Walgren of Pennsylvania -- used House bank checks to lend money to their election campaigns...
...even managed to make an enemy of powerful and popular Warren G. Magnuson, who has represented Washington in the U.S. Senate since 1944. Needing the support of Gordon Walgren, Democratic leader in the state senate, to block a bill on prison expansion, Ray offered to appoint him to Magnuson's seat if Magnuson should die. When Walgren reported the offer publicly, Magnuson, who is 75 and campaigning for a seventh term, was enraged. He shouted at reporters: "I want to tell the Governor there ain't gonna be no vacancy." He later endorsed McDermott for Governor...
...seminars are basically discussion sessions to help the novices learn from those who have had previous experience. "We're going to throw out ideas and learn from each other," said Douglas Walgren, a soon-to-be freshman congressman from Pennsylvania...
MARGARET LEE WALGREN...
...TIME hopes it is not smug about the U.S. diet, views with alarm the prospect of more effective mice, wonders how Reader Walgren knows they are happier...