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Hoping to prod Congress to pass campaign finance reforms, President Clinton is enlisting two prominent retired politicians to lead a bipartisan "citizens committee" for raising public awareness on the issue, administration sources said Wednesday. The project will be led by former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, a Democrat, and former Kansas Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, according to several White House sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Escalating the Clinton administration's pressure on Congress to enact campaign finance reform, Vice President Al Gore on Monday announced the appointment of two party elders, one from each party, to lead a public-education project on the need to change the way elections are bankrolled. "If we don't act quickly, and if we don't act in a truly bipartisan fashion, reform will fail this year," Gore said at the White House as he introduced former vice president and former Sen. Walter F.

Escalating the Clinton administration's pressure on Congress to enact campaign finance reform, Vice President Al Gore on Monday announced the appointment of two party elders, one from each party, to lead a public-education project on the need to change the way elections are bankrolled. "If we don't act quickly, and if we don't act in a truly bipartisan fashion, reform will fail this year," Gore said at the White House as he introduced former vice president and former Sen. Walter F.

Hoping to prod Congress to pass campaign finance reforms, President Clinton is enlisting two prominent retired politicians to lead a bipartisan "citizens committee" for raising public awareness on the issue, administration sources said Wednesday. The project will be led by former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, a Democrat, and former Kansas Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, according to several White House sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Kansas Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, often touted as a possible GOP vice presidential candidate, said Sunday that she is not interested in the job and does not "wish to be considered." The two-term senator, daughter of 1936 Republican presidential nominee Alfred M. Landon, rejected the political speculation about her on NBC's "Meet the Press" when she was asked: "Do you want the job?" "No," she replied.

Possible Senate consideration of a tax on the short-term investments of tax-exempt pension funds raised protests Wednesday on Wall Street but drew support from some economists who believe that it could discourage excessive trading for quick profits. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.

Here are excerpts from the Senate debate Tuesday preceding the vote to confirm Clarence Thomas' nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.): The issue before us is the fate of the Supreme Court and the Constitution now and for decades to come. It is no secret that I oppose Judge Thomas' nomination.

In a simple ceremony attended by their families and a few well-known friends, Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum and former Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. were married Saturday, the first time two people who served in the Senate have ever tied the knot. "She was beautiful, he was handsome, and they were happy," said former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, who attended the wedding with his wife, Honey, at St. Alban's Church in Washington.

When Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-Kan.) cast the lone GOP vote Thursday against John Tower's nomination to be defense secretary, it was just the latest example of an independent streak that has earned her respect in both parties. Three years ago, the daughter of 1936 Republican presidential nominee Alfred M. Landon bucked the Ronald Reagan Administration by voting for economic sanctions against South Africa and by helping to lead the Senate in an override of the President's veto.

For the man who asked the pointed question during the Senate Watergate hearings--"What did the president know and when did he know it?"--could his focus on romance be any less laser-like? After all, when you are former Tennessee Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. interested in dating outgoing Kansas Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, you don't just take a deep breath, dial her up and hope she'll go out with you.

In a simple ceremony attended by their families and a few well-known friends, Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum and former Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. were married Saturday, the first time two people who served in the Senate have ever tied the knot. "She was beautiful, he was handsome, and they were happy," said former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, who attended the wedding with his wife, Honey, at St. Alban's Church in Washington.

For the man who asked the pointed question during the Senate Watergate hearings--"What did the president know and when did he know it?"--could his focus on romance be any less laser-like? After all, when you are former Tennessee Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. interested in dating outgoing Kansas Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, you don't just take a deep breath, dial her up and hope she'll go out with you.

Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-Kan.) confirmed Friday that she will marry former Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. Kassebaum said she will wait until after the Nov. 5 election to announce the wedding date. Kassebaum, 64, did not seek reelection this year and will complete her third six-year term in January. Baker, 70, also served 18 years in the Senate as a Republican from Tennessee, ending as Senate majority leader in 1985, and was briefly White House chief of staff for Ronald Reagan.

Republican Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas announced plans Monday to retire at the end of her third term, a departure that will cost the Senate one of its most effective champions of civility and bipartisan cooperation.

Here are excerpts from the Senate debate Tuesday preceding the vote to confirm Clarence Thomas' nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.): The issue before us is the fate of the Supreme Court and the Constitution now and for decades to come. It is no secret that I oppose Judge Thomas' nomination.

National Endowment for the Arts will retain a controversial requirement that grantees sign an anti-obscenity pledge, despite the rejection, or threatened rejection, of more than $1.3 million in 1990 grants.

National Endowment for the Arts will retain a controversial requirement that grantees sign an anti-obscenity pledge, despite the rejection, or threatened rejection, of more than $1.3 million in 1990 grants.

Republican Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas announced plans Monday to retire at the end of her third term, a departure that will cost the Senate one of its most effective champions of civility and bipartisan cooperation.

Possible Senate consideration of a tax on the short-term investments of tax-exempt pension funds raised protests Wednesday on Wall Street but drew support from some economists who believe that it could discourage excessive trading for quick profits. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.

When Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-Kan.) cast the lone GOP vote Thursday against John Tower's nomination to be defense secretary, it was just the latest example of an independent streak that has earned her respect in both parties. Three years ago, the daughter of 1936 Republican presidential nominee Alfred M. Landon bucked the Ronald Reagan Administration by voting for economic sanctions against South Africa and by helping to lead the Senate in an override of the President's veto.