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...district, and House Armed Services Committee chair Les Aspin of Wisconsin. And who will be counted among the missing persons in the 103rd Congress? Don't look for certain egregious abusers of the House bank: overdrafts took their toll on Ohio's Mary Rose Oakar and Minnesota's Gerry Sikorski, among others...
...evening the government fled Paris, former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Gibson invited us to a dinner at the Ritz with Clare Boothe Luce and a collaborator of Polish General Vladislav Sikorski. It was incredibly macabre: the city was two-thirds surrounded by German troops, the sky was lit up with artillery fire, and there, at the Ritz, everything was as it had always been: waiters in tails, the food, the wine. The proprietor asked us to sign his guest book. Years later, I learned from Field Marshal Rommel's chief of staff that he and Rommel were the next...
Former White House Counsel Fred Fielding was dragged into the growing mess by a member of the congressional panel, Representative Gerald Sikorski, Democrat from Minnesota. Sikorski charged that during a conflict-of-interest review of Deaver in February 1985, Fielding responded to a request from the Government Ethics Office by providing "incomplete information beneficial to Mr. Deaver" the day after an associate of Deaver's approached Fielding about going to work for Deaver's firm. Fielding denied that he had done anything improper...
Some Congressmen have meanwhile gone ahead on the issue. A bill co-sponsored by Democrats Henry Waxman and Gerald Sikorski spreads the burden of paying for emissions reductions. Under the plan, a 1 cent per kilowatt tax would be levied nationwide on utility customers. The $2 billion raised by the tax would be used to subsidize scrubbers for the dirtiest Midwestern power plants. Tax revenues would finance nearly 90 percent of the cost of the scrubbers, which could reduce sulfur-dioxide emissions by about 40 percent in 10 years' time...
...great second row. He is really strong and he can always be counted on to move his side of the pack," says Tom Sikorski, the second row on the other side of the Crimson pack...