Joyful GOP opens Senate J
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
97th Congress, opening a new
conservative era on Capitol Hill,
was convened Monday with
Republicans controlling the
Senate for the first time in 26
years.
“This will be a fine time, a fun
time,” said Sen. Pete Domenici,
of New Mexico, a veteran
Republican, reflecting an al
most jubilant mood among old
and new GOP members of the
Senate.
In the House, where Repub
licans picked up 33 seats but
still fell short of taking control in
last November's election, there
was nonetheless a flexing of
conservative muscle by GOP
leaders.
Democrat Thomas P. O'Neill
was easily re-elected speaker of
the House in an unusual
member-by-member roll call
vote. House Republicans
pledged an opening day fight
over limiting the size of the
federal budget.
Rep. Robert Michel of Illinois
was easily elected House
Republican leader, and is ex
pected to play a much more
active role than his predeces
—making the news—
From Associated Press Reports
SALEM — Oregon courts don’t have authority to order
arrest records expunged that involve people who have been
arrested but not convicted of crimes, the state Court of
Appeals said Monday.
A divided appeals court rejected a constitutional chal
lenge to a state law allowing judges to order criminal convic
tion records sealed in some cases but having no similar
provision for arrest records.
The Court of Appeals also:
• Said the driver’s license of a drunken driving suspect
who refuses to take a breath test can be suspended even
though it may turn out that the person wasn’t driving prior to
the arrest.
• Upheld a state regulation governing operation of
logging equipment across streams:
In a case from Multnomah County, Charles Springer was
arrested and accused by Portland police of criminal mischief
but was freed after no formal charges were filed in court.
Circuit Judge Charles Crookham ordered the record of
the arrest expunged. But a Court of appeals panel, in a 2-1
decision, overturned Crookham’s ruling on grounds that a
state law permitting sealing of conviction records doesn’t
apply to arrest records in cases that never go to trial.
Springer contended that the statute violates constitu
tional rights of equal protection by depriving people arrested
but never convicted of the same right to have records sealed
as those who are convicted.
In the majority opinion by Judge William Richardson, the
appeals court said the Legislature didn’t intend that the law
apply also to arrest records.
WASHINGTON — Pres. Carter will travel to Plains, Ga.,
on Thursday to search for office space to use when he
returns to his hometown to live on Jan. 20, the White House
said Monday.
The president was scheduled to remain in Plains from
Thursday to Sunday, getting a head start on setting up an
office so it will be ready when he arrives home after he leaves
office.
During his Christmas visit to Plains, the president looked
at the mainly unused home of his mother, Lillian Carter, with
an eye toward using that as an office.
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sor, Rep John Rhodes of Ohio.
In the new Congress, there
are 53 Republicans and 47
Democrats in the Senate and
243 Democrats and 192 Repub
licans in the House.
Vice President Walter F.
Mondale, with 15 days remain
ing in office, swore in the 18 new
and 16 re-elected members of
the Senate as one of his last
official acts.
The new Senate majority
leader, Howard Baker of Ten
nessee, predicted that Pres -
elect Ronald Reagan's Cabinet
nominees would be approved 7
by Senate committees by ^
Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, then
be confirmed by the Senate
shortly thereafter.
Then, Baker said, the Senate
would turn to a detailed plan to
rejuvenate the American econ
omy.
Robert Byrd, now the Senate
minority leader, said Democrats
would “cooperate when we can,
when the new administration’s
programs make sense ... and
when we differ, differ
constructively."
Among the new Senate
members were John P. East,
R-N.C., a polio victim who took
the oath of office in a wheel
chair, Paula Hawkins, R-Fla.,
who becomes the second
woman senator, and Jeremiah
Denton, R-Ala., a former Navy
admiral and prisoner of war in
Vietnam
The Senate did no substan
tive work Monday except official
opening ceremonies.
On Friday, the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee is
scheduled to open hearings on
the nomination of Alexander M.
Haig to be Reagan's secretary
of state.
Strom Thurmond of South
Carolina, the senior Repub
lican, was elected president pro
tempore of the Senate, replac
ing Warren Magnuson, the sen
ior Democrat in the 96th Con- ^
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