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...open); Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas (for preventing the closing of a Housing and Urban Development Department office in Topeka); Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia (for protecting a money-losing Amtrak route through his state); Democratic Presidential Contender John Glenn and his Ohio colleague Howard Metzenbaum (for stopping the transfer out of Cleveland of 19 attorneys from the Justice Department's antitrust division...
Environmentalists are expected to criticize Clark's judicial record at the confirmation hearings as well as his apparent lack of expertise. Such liberal Senators on the committee as Ohio's Howard Metzenbaum and Massachusetts' Paul Tsongas may lead the attack. Metzenbaum has already assailed Clark as "eminently unqualified." Still Western conservatives strongly influence the committee, and confirmation by the full Senate is expected, perhaps before the Thanksgiving recess...
...they have run up medical bills totaling some $375 million. Until about ten years ago, most hospitals were operated as nonprofit community institutions without much regard for cost-effective management. But now private enterprise has discovered the hospital business. Says U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio: "There is one business that is growing faster than the computer business-franchised medicine...
Critics accuse the chains of overcharging patients or of skimming the cream from the patient population. At a hospital industry conference in April, Metzenbaum snapped at a group of private hospital officials: "You and your organizations have taken the side of private greed." According to the Senator, for-profit hospitals in Florida charge an average of 14.3% more than nonprofit ones...
...bearded monarch. Glenn is a difficult man to unpeel. After years of dealing with an accepting public, he drifts easily into platitudes. One keeps wondering what now drives him. Obviously the ambition is still great. For it, Glenn had swallowed his pride and invited even the hated Metzenbaum to his presidential announcement in New Concord in April...