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“The vote followed party lines. I got all the Republican votes but only one Democrat went with me ... If I’m re-elected, I’ll reintroduce it in the 1988 session, and this time, I’ll do some advance lobbying.”
Does his minority party affiliation detract from his effectiveness?
“Certainly, it’s a disadvantage being in the minority. I’d cetrainly like to be in the majority. There’s no chance of that in the next term, but I do believe the Republicans will pick up a couple of seats, and we might even become the majority party in the not too distant future. Then I’d be in an excellent position for the chairmanship of a major committee,” he said, noting, for example, that he is the only Republican on the powerful Transportation Committee.
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