Word: chairmanship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senate, the new Judiciary Committee, under the chairmanship of religious conservative Orrin Hatch, planned a "reappraisal" of abortion rights laws and affirmative action programs...
...charm survive the harsher spotlight of the winner's circle? Already questions are being raised about Gingrich's chairmanship of GOPAC, an organization that some assert is devoted solely to promoting Gingrich and his ideas. His Democratic challenger in Georgia two weeks ago claimed that GOPAC spends nearly $2 million a year and was illegally contributing four times as much to candidates as was permitted by law. Says Gingrich: "We legally obey every regulation. I understand my critics are fixated and pathologically disoriented, but they're my opponents. Why would I try to correct that?" As for the substance...
...great-grandson of company founder Henry Ford, William Clay Ford Jr., was named to succeed his father as chairman of the finance committee of Ford Motor Co. The new position, controlling the firm's purse strings, is widely seen as a springboard to eventual chairmanship of the world's second-largest automaker...
Clinton is hoping that Rostenkowski was not as crucial to the passage of health-care reform as he once supposed. Though he can regain his chairmanship if acquitted, Rostenkowski was compelled by Democratic caucus rules to hand over the post to the committee's ranking Democrat, Florida Representative Sam Gibbons, who has shown no special gift for horse trading. So the Administration is expecting its health-care point man to be majority leader Richard Gephardt. But like the rest of the House leadership, Gephardt is also more liberal than the crucial centrists whose support Clinton needs on health care...
...counts for having allegedly engaged in a broad 20-year pattern of corruption. Among the charges: tampering with a grand-jury witness and embezzling more than $500,000 in public funds to pay office workers hired mainly to perform personal services. The indictment forced him to relinquish his pivotal chairmanship to Florida's Sam Gibbons as a result of House Democratic Party rules...