Word: deconcini
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...Senators, David Durenberger (R., Minn.) and Dennis DeConcini (D., Ariz.), separately announced they would not run for re-election next year. Both have been tainted by scandal: Durenberger faces trial in January on fraud charges, and DeConcini was rebuked by the Senate ethics committee in 1991 for accepting campaign contributions from savings and loan huckster Charles Keating. They join three other Senators and 12 House members who will not run for re- election...
...mishap made clear once again the enormous price tag on space ventures. Dennis DeConcini, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, noted bitterly that Congress had struggled to trim about $1.3 billion out of intelligence appropriations this year only to see almost that much blown away in the accident. Even before the explosion happened, CIA Director Jim Woolsey wanted $1 billion added to the $27.5 billion intelligence budget for 1994, but that will now be a tougher sell in Congress -- the extra money is earmarked for more space equipment...
...votes he needs to gain Senate approval. With the slim margin afforded by a 56-to-44 vote in the Senate, Democrats can afford to lose only six colleagues if they hope to save the measure. Already, Richard Shelby of Alabama, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona have made it clear that they cannot support the President. Of the six other Democratic votes up for grabs, Clinton must win three. Louisiana's Bennett Johnston voted against the package in June, and the White House expects him to do so again. Georgia's Sam Nunn...
Most remarkable about the scene were not the security man and woman from the CIA standing outside the Senator's office on Capitol Hill last month. Dennis DeConcini is, after all, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a frequent host to high-level visitors from the agency. What was unusual was the cast of characters they were there to protect. When DeConcini's heavy wooden office door opened, out stepped CIA Director R. James Woolsey -- accompanied by none other than Yevgeni Primakov, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, successor organization to the KGB. Picking up their guards...
...several kinds of instruments on one platform. The innovation would save money in the long run but cost a lot in the short run. To pay for it, Woolsey has been lobbying congressional committees for a $900 million increase in the national intelligence budget of about $28 billion. Senator DeConcini says Woolsey is making a "tremendous push" for a budget increase this year, "but that's hard to do without the Soviet threat." The argument that intelligence agencies now need more money is one "I'm trying hard to believe," DeConcini jokes...