Word: ashcroft
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...fill a network. For his second presidential campaign, he's hiring enough people to staff one. The publishing tycoon, who plans to make it official this week, is rolling out a team that dwarfs his rivals'. "Forbes' strategy has been, If it moves, hire it," says Senator John Ashcroft, a onetime rival...
...abortion, winning few converts. John McCain, the maverick Arizona Senator, announced his semi-candidacy last week by talking about campaign-finance reform, and former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander jumped in (again). The party's absolutist wing looks like a scrapyard. Last week it saw its darling, Senator John Ashcroft of Missouri, announce that he would not seek the nomination...
...Sunday, Christian-values stalwart John Ashcroft was promising that Clinton would get "a speedy trial just like any other citizen" deserves. If the votes to convict still aren't there by March, when the Senate normally begins its legislative year, then the escape hatch pops up. Hatch vowed to craft "the strongest censure resolution there is," and even Minority Leader Tom Daschle wasn't promising the White House any say in the deal. But if censure does come to pass, the Republicans who have hunted this President all year will have to face up to the political truth that this...
...thing for Republicans to call for Clinton's resignation. (Some, like conservative presidential aspirant Senator John Ashcroft, did so quickly, and predictably.) But congressional Democrats form the President's outermost--and most important--ring of defense against his enemies. Which is why Clinton got on the phone to offer personal explanations and apologies to more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday. For the most part, those Democrats who said anything at all in public stuck to White House-inspired spin, expressing "disappointment" in the President, but satisfaction that he had taken responsibility for his actions, and a strong desire...
...most Republicans as a play to Christian conservatives. And just in case anyone thought this was a passing outburst, he swore never to give another speech without mentioning the Clinton investigations. The Christian conservatives "expect us to say that this kind of conduct is unacceptable," says Senator John Ashcroft, who is hoping his own courtship of that constituency will land him in the White House...