Word: bolt
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...caused a near mutiny among reform supporters in the House. Liberal members of Congress object to a provision doubling the maximum amount of regulated "hard-money" contributions a donor can make to a candidate from $1,000 to $2,000. Public-interest groups such as Common Cause threatened to bolt over another provision that allows state parties to keep collecting soft money, arguing it creates a loophole for unregulated donations. Organized labor, a key Democratic constituency, opposes a ban on TV ads that unions and other interest groups run during campaigns to help their favorite candidates. And the 38-member...
...they get him out of this fix? Fletcher got some Republicans to bolt from the Norwood bill to sign on to his. But even with Hastert and the GOP leadership behind him, he doesn't yet have a majority. Many moderate Republicans are holding off and only a few Democrats have defected to his measure. "A lot of Democratic members would like to vote for this bill but they're getting unprecedented pressure from their leadership to vote against it," Fletcher tells TIME. Fletcher isn't helped by the fact that the Senate finally passed the Kennedy-McCain-Edwards bill...
Every week we take our readers to places where news is being made, whether it's the Senate office where Jim Jeffords decided to bolt the Republican Party, a jail cell where a teenage killer has come to realize the horrors he committed or a medical lab where the latest cancer therapy is being developed. But every so often, we devote a special issue to a place we find so compelling that only a dozen or more stories will do the subject justice. So, starting in February, 15 of our journalists began spending time along the 1,952-mile border...
NYPD BLUE Rick Schroder is third Sipowicz partner to bolt. What is it with Dennis Franz...
NEWS MOVES ABC announced it will move 20/20 from Friday to Wednesday nights in the fall. Unhappy star Barbara Walters responded that she might bolt the show when her contract allows. Are schedule shifts worth all this fuss? In the world of ABC's rival news divas...