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Where are the great Senate leaders?

...West Virginia's Joe Manchin for Robert Byrd. One cycle earlier, the venerable South Carolinian Fritz Hollings, of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget-balancing fame, was replaced by Jim DeMint, of tea-party fame. Walk into the reception room...

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Al Gore is on his own

LOS ANGELES--In the words of Sen. Ernest F. (Fritz) Hollings of South Carolina, the first politician I ran into leaving...important to him--burnishing his own record in office and, as Hollings discerned, getting in one more good lick on the Republicans...

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McCain's buddy system

...Massachusetts. Not to mention McCain-Hollings, the bill to federalize airport security workers that McCain and Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, D-S.C., forced into law last...Senate, McCain is likely to partner with Hollings and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/031502/opi_0315020002.shtml
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Bush lacks credibility with blacks

...under a Democratic governor, Ernest F. Hollings, now a senator. ''If it was so offensive...long-lasting relationship with Fritz Hollings?'' said Jackson, who says he raised...African-Americans. ''Why is it that every time (Hollings) has run, black people have supported...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/061300/opi_0613000003.shtml
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Ford, Bridgestone/Firestone trade tire blame accusations

...tying two cats by the tail and throwing them over the clothesline and letting them claw each other," observed Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C. The Senate Commerce Committee hearing was the second trip to Capitol Hill in as many weeks for Ford CEO Jacques...

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Aviation security deal reached

...others declined to discuss their agreement, pending further work on the details. But his Senate counterpart, Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., who chairs the Commerce Committee, said they hoped to put the package together sometime today. That would...

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Senators seek to require better fuel economy

...by 2016. A Democratic plan introduced Friday by Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and the committee chairman, Sen. Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, would require a 35 mpg average by 2013. The White House, preferring to set its own standards, is trying...

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Round of Cabinet hearings begins with Commerce nominee

...longtime friend, received a cordial welcome at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee, which was chaired by Sen. Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., in recognition of the Democrats' brief control of the Senate until Dick Cheney becomes vice president and...

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Congress passes aviation security bill and sends it on to President Bush

...stimulus bill," Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., added. He said it will put people back in...period, airports can opt out of the federal system, although Hollings said that after an airport brings in federal workers, "I...

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A setting to listen and learn

...threw a civil rights resolution on the table - just to watch the Democrats fight among themselves - and Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings of South Carolina responded by launching the first and only filibuster I've ever witnessed at these sessions. Back when...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/072308/opi_20080723016.shtml
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