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...shell game" with the Contract with America, blamed "idiots" in the Senate for scaring investment banker Felix Rohatyn away from the Federal Reserve Board and slammed lawmakers generally for playacting rather than attending to the nation's woes. "The strutting, the pouting. Congressmen standing on the steps of the Capitol, demonstrating this, demonstrating that," Perot says. "This is great for the evening news, but it does nothing to solve our nation's problems." His prescription: more civility in public discourse...
...remembered as the complicated figure he had been in life: a fan of Hermes ties who liked to dine in deep-fry joints; a defender of the little people who enjoyed being chauffeured around in limousines; a dealmaker who could talk policy (if only to better horse-trade on Capitol Hill); a big-time Washington lawyer who never gave up public service; a man of conviction who often skirted the ethical edge; a keenly optimistic black man in the white establishment. His resume contained a gold-plated series of civil rights achievements, even if he refused to let them define...
...Republican Party knew that organized labor was about to launch the most audacious, best-financed attack his party had ever endured. So two Fridays ago, he brought together a dozen of his party's most powerful leaders. The meeting, in a glass-lined conference room in Republican headquarters on Capitol Hill, included top people from the Christian right, the pro-life movement, Big Business and small business. Barbour told the group that he thought the AFL-CIO's campaign on behalf of the Democrats would be worth far more than the $35 million the union was promising--and perhaps...
...will soon announce the formation of a sprawling new coalition called the Center on the 21st Century Workplace. The center will start by publishing economic studies in support of corporate and government downsizing but then will quickly throw money into a grass-roots effort to downsize the Democrats on Capitol Hill. "Unions have the money and the motivation," the Chamber's Bruce Josten says. "Now the business community is going to get more aggressive in return...
...look at the swift action taken to remove Bernice Harris when a male aide to G.O.P. Senator Mitch McConnell cried harassment after being called "baby" by the 58-year-old cashier, who has been dishing up food and Southern endearments for 30 years in the Capitol. Fortunately, staff members in Senator David Pryor's office, who eat at "Bernice's" every day, found out she had quit rather than be transferred, even though she was just short of qualifying for her full pension. A letter-writing campaign got her reinstated. McConnell's spokesman says "allowances have to be made" because...