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...Robbie Mitchell." Overshadowed by his basketball- star siblings, George decided to excel in other ways. Last week he attained a pinnacle of sorts when he was chosen majority leader of the U.S. Senate over two colleagues with more seniority, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye and Louisiana's J. Bennett Johnston. In that role, Mitchell will be the Democrats' most visible counterpoint to another fellow with Maine connections: George Bush, of Kennebunkport...
Mitchell, a 55-year-old former federal judge, easily defeated Sens. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. He succeeds Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, who stepped aside after 12 years as the Senate's Democratic leader...
Mitchell fell only one vote short of winning the Democratic leadership post on the first ballot, picking up 27 votes. Inouye and Johnston tied for second at 14 votes each, and quickly agreed to give Mitchell a unanimous victory...
...crunch could come in May, when Bush will be in need of Senate votes to raise the national debt ceiling above $2.8 trillion. Like a hanging, a hike in the debt ceiling concentrates the mind. The ceiling will not go up, says Johnston, unless the President "comes to us and swallows hard about raising revenues. When he does that, that's when we'll cooperate...
...dollar drops and the Dow plunges, the President- elect begins to assemble a team that he hopes can stop the slide. -- Nine sub- Cabinet jobs that will make a real difference on trade, foreign policy and the environment. -- Louisiana' s Bennett Johnston, a leading contender for Senate majority leader, says Bush' s economic plan is "absolute nonsense...