Democratic Agenda for 1992

Sen. Robb, chairman of the Democratic senatorial campaign committee, spoke to the American League of Lobbyists on the prospects for the Democrats in the presidential and congressional elections in 1992. The 1992 Senate elections mark the end of the terms of Senators elected in 1986, and if reelected in 1986, also Senators elected in 1980. These Senators, as Mr. Sweeney discussed, are notable in that 1980 marked a change from a Democratic to Republican majority in the Senate, and 1986 marked a change from a Republican to Democratic majority. Sen. Robb is currently involved in a bitter political feud against Virginia Gov. Wilder, who has accused the Senator of obtaining secretly taped phone conversations between the Virginia governor and his aides. Sen. Robb, in turn, has accused Gov. Wilder’s staff of spreading rumors of a 1982 tryst with a young woman in a hotel room, about which Sen. Robb previously claimed he received only a massage from the woman. Sen. Robb commented only obliquely close