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Wednesday Luncheon Group Shapes Senate Votes
In Washington Nixon faces a rebel bloc of Republicans known as the Wednesday Luncheon Group. This loose center of 8 to 12 members from Hatfield to Javits wields influence by blocking liberal moves and swaying key votes on major issues, with no formal rules or minutes and a shifting roster.
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Cambodia
Nixon
Capial
James Pearson
Kansas
Charles Goodell
New York
Oregon
Mark Hatfield
Robert J. Dole
White House
Congress
Marlow Cook
Cook
Supreme Court
Clement F. Haynsworth
G. Harrold Carswell
Byrd
Indochina
House
Sam Rayburn
Board of Education
Whih
Lyndon Johnson
Democratic
Schweiker
Hatfield
Goodell
Bmoke
Percy
Case
Javits
Psers
Cooper
Mathias
Saxbe
Pearson
Republican
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Everett Dirksen
Griffin
Haynsworth
Carswell