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Article: Senate quo.(makeup of the US Senate)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 31, 1996
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Sen. James Jeffords (R., Vt.) enlisted as a sponsor of the Clinton health-care bill in 1993. He voted for national service, family leave, and the Brady Bill, and he opposed the tax cuts in the Contract with America. In 1994, according to the Almanac of American Politics, Jeffords's vote for a Democratic campaign-finance reform bill so enraged Phil Gramm, who was then chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, that he ripped Jeffords's picture off a wall in the committee's lobby. Nonetheless, in 1997, Jeffords is set to become a GOP power-broker. He has dodged a potential challenge from Sen. Dan Coats (R., Ind.) and in January will claim the chairmanship of the ...