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Harrison ("Pete") Williams, has been a Democratic Senator from New Jersey for 21 years and one of the state's biggest vote getters. In that time he has faithfully and consistently backed organized labor. Aid to mass transit has been another favorite Williams cause. But for all his seniority (he chairs the important Labor and Human Resources Committee), the New Jerseyite is widely regarded as a weak Senator. He is shy and occasionally self-effacing. His colleagues-and the voters-respect his having defeated a serious drinking problem and talking publicly about...
Questions about Williams' finances have been raised before Abscam. During his 1976 senatorial campaign, he was criticized for accepting some $28,000 from the banking and securities industries just before a Senate vote on securities legislation. Some observers feel that Williams, who has bought a Georgetown house valued at nearly $375,000, might be living beyond his means. Just last month he let it be known that he was thinking of running for Governor...
...found a man who supports the Panama Canal and SALT II treaties, gun control, the Equal Rights Amendment and some forms of school-busing, and who opposes the MX missile, B-1 bomber and selective service registration. His record on civil rights has been particularly distinguished; it was his vote in April, 1968 that allowed President Johnson's open housing bill to get through the Rules Committee. But on the economy, the domestic policy area over which a president has most direct control, Anderson remains a conservative, a man who believes a balanced budget is the primary goal...
...Americans for Constitutional Action gave him an average approval rating of 88 per cent. His views have moderated since then, but even in the past three years, the AFL-CIO's committee on political education gave him an average rating of only 32 per cent, in part for his vote against the Common Situs bill, a measure that would have allowed unions with a greivance against one contractor to picket all the contractors on the same construction site. There aren't many unions in northwestern Illinois...
...Brown was so worried about the embarassing possibility of having a zero next to his name on television screens across the nation that he told his Iowa supporters to try to win election as uncommitted delegates. And although Brown did manage to garner 11.5 per cent of the vote in Maine's caucuses this week, he was able to pick up only two delegates. Brown's showing was respectable only in comparison to his pathetic performance earlier in the race...