
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, June 26, 1990                   TAG: 9006260505
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

BEYER'S SENATE OFFICE MAY BECOME RESTROOM

Lt. Gov. Donald S. Beyer's office on the Senate floor may be converted to a women's restroom to solve an inequitable situation for Virginia's three female senators.

"The gentlemen have a lounge, but the ladies don't," Senate Majority Leader Hunter B. Andrews, D-Hampton, said in a recent letter to Sen. Stanley Walker, D-Norfolk.

Walker chairs the Senate Rules Committee, which governs how the 40-member chamber operates.

Walker said several alternatives are being considered, including expanding the men's lounge into a unisex rest area or converting other spaces outside the chamber.

But Andrews said renovation of Beyer's office would be appropriate since the lieutenant governor a few years ago was given permanent office space in the nearby Supreme Court building.

"He never uses the one in the Senate . . . except to hang up his coat," Andrews said Monday.

- Associated Press

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