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Evans who delights in his close association with Reagan. The new role "makes my job a lot From his place on the Judiciary Committee whose new chairman has said he will soften the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts Biden could look like a liberal. Biden said he doesn't think the people of Delaware will believe that the board," Biden said. "The emphasis should be on payroll tax on the one end and on business taxes on the other." Biden might come out looking like a conservative when he sits in his seat on the budget committee. a fight against repealing the Voting Rights Act is "ultra-liberal." One problem for Biden has been his association with President Carter.

Biden often worked as Carter's point man on Capitol Hill, selling legislation and positions that 1 SHOP TODAY AND EVERY SUNDAY 11 TO 8 9" THIS ZENITH AS ALL THE FEATURES YOU'D EXPECT The political upheaval in the na tion capital has touched the fortunes of Delaware's U.S. senators in different ways. The senior senator, William V. Roth is a Republican who has long espoused many of the programs President-elect' Ronald Reagan has pledged to enact. The junior senator, Joseph R.

Biden was a political ally of President Carter, and a frequent point-man for the administration in foreign affairs. Staff reporters interviewed both men in Washington last week; the report on Biden appears today; the story on Roth will appear in tomorrow in The Morning News and Evening Journal. By RICHARD SANDZA Staff reporter WASHINGTON While the conservatives -who take credit for dumping four liberal senators this year were drawing up their "hit list" for 1982, an aide to Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.

was doing some research. The aide was checking the ratings of the Americans for Democratic Action to see just how liberal his boss was considered. He found that 20 of the senators and senators-elect are rated more liberal than Biden. The research was prompted by the election victories of conservatives over "liberal" senators. Biden has to consider the problem conservatives could present for a senator whose ADA rating is much higher than the Senate average.

The Delaware' Democrat had campaigned for most of the targeted senators who lost. The losses are attributed in part to advertising campaigns paid for by the National Conservative Political Action Committee. NCPAC has warned the Congress that it will be watching the Senate for liberals who should be added to the list. Senators will be watching their votes. Except Biden.

The NCPAC approach "won't sell at home," Biden said. "It's going to be awfully hard to get the mainstream Republican party to jump on that program in Delaware," Biden said, noting that Delaware Republicans preferred to nominate the more moderate George Bush for president over Reagan. "I also predict what's going to happen in four years: for every NCPAC, you'll find two pressure groups on the other side," said Biden. Biden said the Republicans he's talked to have been in the minority for so long 28 years that they really don't know what to do now that they're in command. He said a Republican senator week told him, "I feel like the dog that caught the car." Biden laughed when asked if the outcome of the elections means the country has turned conservative or Republican.

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And he feels that the Republican program will help him achieve some of the things he's been unable to get past the Democrats in Congress. "In a strange way," Biden said, "the election of Ronald Reagan is more consistent with the budgetary thrust that a guy like me has been going for for the past few years." For example, Biden said, with Reagan in the White House and Delaware Sen. William V. Roth Jr. at the helm of the Government Affairs Committee, "I should get sunset now." Sunset legislation, which was approved this year for the state of Delaware, in effect sets expiration dates for government agencies, requiring specific action to restore them.

The idea is to force an automatic review of the agencies to make sure they are needed. "That's the kind of area I think we can make some progress," Biden said. "And he'll have my full, unbridled cooperation." He doesn't believe Reagan will be able make good campaign promises to cut the fat from government, cut taxes across the boardby 30 percent and increase the defense budget. Biden wants a tax cut, but not the one proposed by Roth and endorsed by "I don't think the idea of a 30 per cent tax cut for a guy making $200,000 and a 30 percent tax cut for someone making $30,000 makes sense, either in terms of equity or in terms of economic policy. The tax cut "should not be across TRI-FOCUS" PICTURE TUBE FOR RICH COLORS AND CONTRASTS AUTOMATIC FINE TUNING LOCKS-IN RECEPTION VIDEO TUNING PINPOINTS SIGNALS RELIABLE SOLID STATE CHASSIS HANDSOME PLASTIC CABINET Sorry, no mail or phone orders.

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