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...last one to leave." By sophomore year, he had made a varsity team which included current new York Knick Sly Williams. The team won the state championship, but without Fleming, who had left at the first of the year to serve as a page for U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker (D-Conn.). But before coming to Harvard, Fleming cupped all-District and honorable mention all-State honors in both his junior and senior year...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Donald Fleming | 3/6/1982 | See Source »

...members, they can force a head-on floor vote. In the Republican Senate, where the New Right claims credit for electing up to a dozen new members in 1980, supporters will find it easier to force floor debates and to cut off the filibusters threatened by liberal Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. But the moral crusaders may discover that many of the freshmen they helped elect are now less anxious to do battle for conservative social causes than they were when they were on the campaign trail. Says Senator James Abdnor of South Dakota, who defeated Democrat George McGovern partly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enter, Stage Far Right | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...rider-to the bill authorizing funds for the Department of Justice-that would ban Government initiation of desegregation cases that would lead "directly or indirectly" to busing for the purpose of racial integration. His move has so far been blocked by a Senate filibuster by liberal Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. Moreover, Helms' effort has been complicated by another rider proposed by Democratic Senator Bennett Johnston of Louisiana that would overturn existing busing orders as well. Meanwhile, Hatch plans to introduce a bill to limit the power of fedral courts-up to, but not including, the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeking Strategy on Social Issues | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee also cut about $11 billion from social spending. But even this Republican-dominated committee could not swallow the idea of block grants. Though Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah strongly favored Reagan's approach, Republican Moderates Robert Stafford of Vermont and Lowell Weicker of Connecticut wanted to protect important categorical grants for health and education. The President talked with Hatch and Stafford by telephone from Camp David on Sunday to see if an accommodation could be reached. The following night, Hatch, Weicker, Stafford, Budget Director David Stockman, Health Secretary Richard Schweiker and Education Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Block Those Grants! | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...other group by the lessening of inflation and the increase in economic growth that the Reagan plan is supposed to produce. Even some Republicans appear to feel that the Administration is going too far. In a meeting of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week, Republicans Lowell Weicker of Connecticut and Robert Stafford of Vermont joined six Democrats in rejecting $2 billion of proposed reductions in education programs, legal services for the poor and federal assistance to help low-income people buy fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Cheering Died | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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