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parade before us an array of illegalities,
improprieties, taking the Fifth Amend
ment, absentee witnesses, all the time
the Justice Department was trying to
keep a lid on it and keep the facts from
the American people,” Thompson said.
“I don’t mind good foxhole conversions,
but there has to be accountability
first.”
In Florida, Bush said he is consider
ing calling for suspension of a 4.3
cents-per-gallon gasoline tax passed in
1993 with Gore casting the tie-break
ing vote in the Senate. A number of Re
publicans in Congress are thinking about
such a move to counter rising gasoline
prices brought on by an oil shortage stem
ming from production cuts put in place
by the oil producing nations.
Gore said in his AP interview that
getting the oil producing nations to in
crease supply is the way to go and En
eigy Secretary Bill Richardson said Sun
day he is opposed to suspending the 1993
gas tax.
Bush’s chief political strategist, Karl
Rove, had even harsher criticism of Gore
and a 1996 fund-raiser he attended at a
Buddhist temple in California. A Gore
friend and political supporter recently
was convicted of arranging illegal dona
tions in connection with the event.
“Sometimes Vice President Gore has
a big problem telling the truth,” Rove
said on “Fox News Sunday.” “The Bud
dhist temple involved violations of law.
Fifty-five thousand dollars in illegal con
tributions were funneled through that
fund-raiser, and the vice president has
consistently not told the truth about his
involvement in that fund-raiser.”
Rep. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., ap
pearing on the same program, said he
hoped Bush and McCain will set aside
the bitterness of the campaign and
unite against Gore for the good of the
party.
“If John McCain jumps on board,
and he puts his heart into it, woe be un
to the Democrats,” said Graham, who
helped lead McCain’s effort in South Car
olina
Bush made his comments after tour
ing the Strawberry Festival, a carnival
complete with Ferris wheels, conch frit
ters and strawberries everywhere.
The governor made himself a tow
ering strawberry shortcake at a booth
sponsored by St. Clement Catholic
Church. McCain had criticized Bush for
speaking at a South Carolina Christian
school whose leaders have criticized
Catholicism.
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Sen. Hollings not showing up in committee
Associated Press
If you’re looking for US. Sen. Ernest “Ritz” Hollings,
don’t check the Senate’s committee meeting rooms.
Records show that since he was re-elected two years
ago, Hollings has made about 30 percent of the meet
ings held by the Senate Appropriations Committee, the
Budget Committee and the Commerce, Science and
Transportation Committee, The State reported.
Hollings, 78, said it wasn’t necessary for him to at
tend most of the meetings and that much of his work
is done outside such gatherings.
He expressed surprise that his attendance was as
high as records showed “That’s more than I thought,”
Hollings, D-S.G, said
During the same time, U.S. Sen. Strom Thur
mond R.-S.C., made about half his committee and sub
committee meetings.
Hollings said the 97-year-old Republican is there
more because “he’s got nothing else to do.”
It’s nearly impossible to make all Senate meetings,
which sometimes overlap or clash with other impor
tant events.
But Hollings serves on some of the most high-pow
ered coveted committees in the Senate.
As the ranking Commerce Committee member,
Hollings is part of all seven subcommittees and also *
serves on five Appropriations subcommittees. The Bud
get Committee has no subcommittees.
Thurmond serves on the Armed Services Com
mittee and three of its subcommittees; the Judiciary
Committee, leading one subcommittee and serving on
three others; and the Veterans Affairs Committee, which
has no subcommittees.
Charles Dunn, a former Clemson University po
litical analyst now at Grove City College in Pennsyl
vania, said the committee process is where legislation
is largely shaped.
Dunn said Hollings’ attendance was a “low num
ber.”
Even if Hollings’ staffers are at meetings, the sena
tor’s absence “sends a signal to his staff that he’s not in
terested,” Dunn said.
Hollings said voters shouldn’t worry about his com
mittee-attendance record. “It’s the worst indication in
the world” of a senator’s performance, he said. In 1999,
Hollings had a 97 percent floor-voting record.
Thurmond said the meetings are significant. “I at
tend all of them unless there’s some conflict,” he said.
“That’s what I’m up here for—to answer the people’s
business. You can’t do it unless you attend the meet-.
ings.”
There are other areas where Hollings and his office
have slowed. Since re-elected, he’s gone from putting
out up to four news releases a day to sending out only
a few notices all 1999 touting his achievements.
Also, at least 12 staffers left Hollings’ office.
Some say Hollings remains one of the most formi
dable and effective lawmakers in the Senate. He can still
draw money for projects like the U.S. Border Patrol
School and the Hollings Cancer Center, both in
Charleston.
During Hollings’ last campaign against Republican
Congressman Bob Inglis, the senator questions his op
ponents’ vo'ting record although the two had similar
records for the 105 th Congress.
“I though it was an unwarranted attack” in the 1998
race, Inglis said. “I wonder what the senator thinks, hav
ing used that weapon when he’s apparently quite guilty
of a greater offense.”
Hollings has faced some personal struggles in the
past year — his house in Isle of Palms burned down, his
wife had double knee-replacement surgery — although
he said that nothing in his personal life has affected his
committee attendance.
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