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All she can do is refer them to Arizona’s two U.S. senators.

For Hulse, a Miss South Dakota turned Republican state senator, it seemed not just a pageant victory but a cultural watershed.

The senator’s bill, the Faster Labor Contracts Act, ill-advisedly proposes that a government agency, via compelled arbitration, should impose labor contracts on employers who fail to reach prompt agreements with the union.

Rising tensions between the two parties have been on full display this week, with Johnson and Democratic senators clashing over the shutdown in front of the gathered press.

“As a result,” the New York Times reported after his 97-0 confirmation by the Senate in February 1988, “senators have been free to project their own hopes and views onto a somewhat ambiguous record.”