Word: bonior
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When the New York Daily News reported the meeting last week, Democrats seized the moment. "Mr. Gingrich seems to have an addiction to secrecy and back-room deals," said Michigan's David Bonior, who now plays Gingrich's old role as Torquemada to the majority. Bonior resumed his call for a special counsel to look into the book deal...
...President talks amiably with the virtual President, even as his lieutenants prepare for war. Last week Democratic whip David Bonior threatened that if the Republicans try to railroad bills through, "we'll blow up the tracks." Perhaps they will try. But pure obstructionism won't help Clinton or the Democrats, and there are now two engineers driving the train...
...convened for GATT. Preparations for the bleak unknown began with Democratic House leadership elections. Representative Richard Gephardt of Missouri briefly climbed out of his hospital bed to secure the nod as minority leader before returning for a gallbladder operation; he will be joined by newly elected minority whip David Bonior of Michigan and California's Vic Fazio, now the House Democratic caucus chairman. In the Senate, Tom Daschle of South Dakota was voted in as minority leader over Connecticut's Christopher Dodd. On the other side of the aisle, veteran Senate Republican whip Alan Simpson of | Wyoming was edged...
...vote, may swerve hard to the left. "Our mission is to represent workers, middle income families, the poor families of our country," Gephardt told reporters after the secret ballot. "I also look forward to winning the House back in 1996." His right-hand man, Democratic whip Rep. David Bonior of Michigan, likewise won out over Texas conservative Charlie Stenholm. TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty says the return of Gephardt, who becomes the senior congressional Democrat with Speaker Tom Foley's re-election defeat, puts his party in the same combative position the GOP has been in for most...
...heightened by news reports that Judge David B. Sentelle, one of the panel of three judges who chose Starr, had recently been lunching with North Carolina Republican Senator Lauch Faircloth, one of Fiske's harshest critics. Though Sentelle says he and Faircloth never discussed Fiske, Democratic House whip David Bonior suggested last week that their meeting "should be a subject of investigation itself...