Her strident certainties on Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood helped to open public figures' private lives to public inspection.

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On the morning after the House vote the Senate Finance Committee's chairman Bob Packwood (R-Oregon) and its ranking minority member James Exon (D-Nebraska) told me they'd seek deficit cuts before they'd go along with tax cuts in the Senate version of the bill.

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