4A41)itrH The Michigan Daily - Monday, December 4, 1995 - 5A Dole uses leadership post for expOsure The Washington Post WASHINGTON- A few afternoons ago Bob Dole had it both ways. There he was live on C-SPAN giving a high- brow speech announcing his qualified support for President Clinton on Bosnia. Flip a couple of channels and there he was again, condemning movie violence in a videotape excerpt used in the middlebrow CNN show "TalkBack Live." Teddy Roosevelt may have claimed the "bully pulpit" for the President of the United States, but in the electronic age being the majority leader of the Senate is almost as good - especially if you're also a presidential candidate. Pundits speculate that Dole (R-Kan.) suffers from having his senatorial du- ties cut into his campaign time, but who else gets free nationwide television ex- posure whenever he wants it? In the past three months, Dole's of- fice has cranked out 53 news releases on subjects ranging from Bosnia to the O.J. Simpson trial and Cal Ripken's record for consecutive baseball games played. "I know that all members of the Senate join with me in tipping our hats to Cal," Dole said on Sept. 6. During the same period Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), Dole's chief rival for the 1996 GOP nomination, pro- duced 25 news releases. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the Senate's other presidential hopeful, had 63, but these included a sheaf of policy statements in Lugar's capacity as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutri- tion and Forestry. "When we (the GOP) became the majority, the demand for comments certainly didn't diminish," said Dole press secretary Clarkson Hine. "I'm not Republicans say Gingrich will remain a top party messenger WASHINGTON (AP) - Republi- can leaders spoke approvingly yester- Newt ougtt to just quiet down, cut day of Rep. Newt Gingrich's decision ou all th y-"-'"-" to steer clearofTV cameras fora while. ou iie -& but said the speaker of the House will remain a top messenger for their party. "I think he himself feels that maybe it's best now to keep a low profile for a while, because there were some state- ments made that he regrets," Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas said on CBS' "Face the Nation." Even some longtime supporters were angered by Gingrich's statement that he toughened the terms in last month's partial government shutdown because - Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.) he felt President Clinton had snubbed him aboard Air Force One, Republi- cans returning to Capitol Hill after Thanksgiving reported. A Senate Democrat agreed that Gingrich should keep a lower profile. "Newt ought to just quiet down, cut out all that rat-a-tat-tat he's got going and let Dole take over," Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.) said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Hollings accused Gingrich of want- ing too much power. "He thinks we've got the parliamen- tary system and he's the prime minis- ter; that we over in the Senate are just a bunch of House of Lords and the presi- dent is ceremonial," Hollings said. U' Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole talks to reporters outside the CBS-TV studios in Washington yesterday after appearing on "Face the Nation." Dole discussed the deployment of U.S. troops to Bosnia and the federal budget during his appearance. FeP Ga0 a Cr4or L N OW ON SALE! 2.99 Each News Analysis sure ifthere's a dramatic difference, but I assume it's more." Since the beginning of September, Dole has issued at least two press re- leases on 11 different days, including four on Oct. 18 and five on Oct. 17, when the Senate passed the defense appropriations bill that funded four projects for Kansas. "In my view the Sensor Fuzed Weapon and the Combined Effects Munition arean effective use of scarce defense dollars," he said, and who's to argue? "In my view," is Dole's favorite phrase, useful for everything from Sen- sor Fuzed Weapons to Clinton, who, "in my view... has not yet made the case to the Congress or the American people" on Bosnia, Dole said Nov. 21. But by Nov. 30, in the latest of 10 Dole releases on Bosnia, Clinton had done well enough to merit qualified support, even if, "in my view, the defi- nition of success of this deployment must include a real end to the war." Another Dole specialty is the "snarl clause," the nasty little aside that sticks it to the enemy - Clinton, tax-and- spend Democrats in general, or both: "I've read the polls that say more Americans are blaming the Republican Congress for the (government) shut- down than are blaming President Clinton," he said on Nov. 15. "And if you think leadership is all about taking polls - as the White House does - then I suppose you can take heart in these results." Most congressional press secretaries distill theirnews releases from the boss's floor speeches. 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