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- GRAPEVINE, Page 17How's That Again?
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- As Congress wrapped up its business last week, effusive
- farewells were given for Senators and Congressmen who will not
- be returning to Capitol Hill. Some kudos fell a little flat.
- Congressman Bill Dannemeyer, improbably lauded as "the
- conscience of the House," will long be remembered for inserting
- into the 1989 Congressional Record a description of homosexual
- lovemaking so meanspirited that it was later excised from the
- permanent text. Senator Steve Symms, praised for bravely
- defending the rights of gun owners, is notable for little else.
- Senator Alan Dixon was lionized as "one of the most fiercely
- independent Democrats" in Congress. Funny. He is noted for being
- so chummy with lobbyists that he is known around the Hill as "Al
- the Pal."
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