Word: barres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already rolling in. Republican Bill McCollum has declared himself "shocked and disgusted" by the apparent "lurid sexual behavior" detailed in the Starr report. Democrat Maxine Waters has blasted Ken Starr, whose report the committee will be weighing, as "the poster boy for unethical prosecutors." Republican bomb thrower Bob Barr has attacked Clinton's "systemic abuses" of the "political process" and demanded an inquiry into his impeachment--and that was last year, before the Monica Lewinsky scandal even broke...
...done a good job of attracting true believers from both sides. "We're terribly polarized," says a staff member with a tinge of pride. "We fight like cats and dogs." Prominent Republicans with a cause include Charles Canady, father of the English-as-the-official-language bill, and Barr, an anti-gun control crusader with close ties to the National Rifle Association. On the left are some of Congress's strongest civil rights partisans, including Waters and Texan Sheila Jackson Lee. The committee has had some low-key bipartisan successes in areas such as court reform and defining intellectual-property...
...television talk show appearance on Sunday, Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) stated that he had not made up his mind about whether he was going to vote to impeach President Clinton because of his conduct in the Lewinsky matter...
...Barr, one of the President's most rabid critics, has been calling for Bill Clinton's impeachment or resignation practically since he stepped into office. Are we now to believe that he has suddenly become a judicious and wise representative who is actually going to consider all of the facts and vote with an open mind? Or did Bob Barr lie to us when he said that he hasn't made up his mind...
...first and thought later, their actions were quite reasonable. And your reportage somehow neglected to mention that these "unsportsmanlike" riders nonetheless finished the course for the benefit of the many spectators who had turned out to see them. You owe the entire Tour de France an apology. MIKE W. BARR Canoga Park, Calif...