week. In an interesting
sidelight to the debate, the
enacting legislation has been
subtitled "The Proxmire
Bill," in honor of the retiring
Sen. William Proxmire —
who has championed the
Genocide Convention for most
of his Senate career. To date,
Proxmire has given more
than 3000 Senate speeches on
the subject, which must be
some kind of record.
And Jewish activists who
have been following the
ponderous progress of the
treaty suggest that Sen.
Joseph Biden (D-Del.)
deserves recognition for his
tireless support.
Bye Bye Bird As
Majority Leader
It's official: Sen. Robert
Byrd (D-WATa.) will be step-
ping down as Senate majori-
ty leader in December after a
ten year run — a move that
has been rumored in the pro-
Israel community for months.
Byrd, while generally a sup-
porter of Israel, has not been
a favorite of pro-Israel lob-
byists here.
The stakes are high in the
wake of Israel's current dif-
ficulties, and the possibility
that the unrest in the ter-
ritories may make the pro-
Israel agenda a little harder
to sell on the Hill.
The leading contender for
the job — and a favorite of pro-
Israel groups — is Sen. Daniel
Inouye (D-Hawaii), who has a
long history of strong support
for Israel. But Inouye's
chances may have been bad-
ly damaged by the controver-
sy over his $8 million ap-
propriation for North
AFrican Jews living in
France — a bill he later
sought to reverse.
In what some are calling a
fortunate coincidence-and
others argue was just good
planning — another top can-
didate, Sen. Bennett
Johnston (D-L a.) is schedul-
ed to be a featured speaker at
the upcoming annual policy
conference of the American
Israel Public Affairs Commit-
tee (AIPAC).
Finally, Sen. George J. Mit-
chell of Maine is considered a
possible choice for the power-
ful position.
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Liberal Group Ranks
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Washington (JTA) — The
liberal Americans for
Democratic Action (ADA), in
a ranking of members of Con-
gress who are Jewish, found
that four of the seven Jews in
the Senate and 22 of the 28
Jewish members of the House
can be considered liberals.
The ADA ranking, issued
last week, was based on
voting records in 1987 on 20
key issues in the Senate and
25 in the House. Sens.
Howard M-etzenbaum (D-
Ohio) and Rep. Barney Frank
(D- Mass.) voted 100 percent
for what the ADA considers
liberal positions, while those
voting the most conservative,
only 20 percent, were Sens.
Chic Hecht (R-Nev.) and
Willis Gradison (R-Ohio). Two
other Jews in the House voted
less than 50 percent for
liberal positions, Rep. Rep.
John Miller (R-Wash.), 48 per-
cent, and Rep. Ben Erdreich
(D-Ala.), 40.
Michigan Democratic Sen.
Carl Levin received a 90 per-
cent rating. Sen. Donald
Riegle (D-Mich.) who is not
Jewish, received a 100 per-
cent rating.
"The Jewish members of
Congress have traditionally
reflected the liberalism of the
Sen. Carl Levin:
90 percent liberal.
overall community, and 1987
was no exception," Marc
Pearl, the ADA's national
director said. Pearl, the
former Washington represen-
tative of the American Jewish
Congress, noted that while
the average score in the
House was 51 percent liberal
in 1987, the average for
Jewish members was "an as-
tounding 81 percent." In the
Senate, the average score for
the Jewish members was 59
percent as compared to 53
percent for the overall Senate.
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