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...other gas bills, most opposing decontrol. Last week a group of 29 Congressmen announced plans for a measure to roll back some prices to January 1982 levels. In the Senate, Majority Leader Howard Baker has let it be known that he will not push the Reagan proposal, filibuster. Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat, has threatened to filibuster. Ironically, the bill's best chances may lie in its complexity, which makes it hard to grapple with, let alone reject. Says Corcoran: "One of its attractive features is that it has got everybody confused...
...your charts show the same thing?" asked Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, as the relentless catalogue continued. "I think you want to see some more, sir," Spinney replied with a burning intensity. "This is important...
...Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum used the threat of filibuster to block a host of self-serving bills of the kind that special interests try to sneak through at the end of a hectic session. As Rhode Island Republican John Chafee graphically described the process: "You can almost hear the hogs moving up to the trough-slurp, slurp, slurp." Among them were bills that would weaken regulation of beer distributors, doctors and lawyers, and the National Football League. None passed...
...John H. Sununu (R) No Race N.J. No Race Frank R. Lautenberg (D) N.M. Toney Anaya (D) Jeff Bingaman (D) N.Y. Mario M. Cuomo (D) Daniel P. Moynihan (D) N.C. No Race No Race N.D. No Race Quentin N. Burdick (D) OHIO Richard F. Celeste (D) Howard M. Metzenbaum (D) OKLA. George Nigh (D) No Race ORE. Victor G. Atiyeh (R) No Race PA. Dick Thomburgh (R) John Heinz (R) R.I. J. Joseph Garrahy (D) * S.C. Richard W. Riley (D) No Race S.D. William J. Janklow (R) No Race TENN. Lamar Alexander (R) Jim Sasser (D) TEX. Mark White...
...PACs are playing a dominant role in many races around the country. When Ohio Republican Paul Pfeifer launched his challenge against Senator Howard Metzenbaum last spring, he was given so little chance that the pragmatic PACs shunned him. Metzenbaum's $3 million campaign fund, on the other hand, included $350,000 in PAC money by the end of the summer, mainly from unions. But last month, while Metzenbaum was in Washington conducting a maverick crusade against special-interest bills, Pfeifer began showing strength in the polls. Suddenly PAC money started flowing to the challenger. Says a Pfeifer aide: "More...