Word: congress
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...with less room to stretch are increasingly directing their anger at flight crews, punching an attendant, head butting a co-pilot or trying to break into the cockpit. "Passenger interference is the most pervasive security problem facing airlines," Captain Stephen Luckey of the Air Line Pilots Association testified before Congress. Though still relatively small, the number of incidents is estimated to have at least doubled in recent years. Nearly a thousand episodes took place within U.S. jurisdiction last year...
...President had lied repeatedly under oath, obstructed justice by helping Lewinsky get a job and encouraged everyone around him to do the same. "He lied to the people, he lied to his Cabinet, he lied to his top aides, and now he's lied under oath to the Congress of the U.S. There's no one left...
...centered me in a way nobody has before." She said she believes Sonny was under the influence of painkillers when he skied into the tree, even though the autopsy doesn't list that as the cause of death. She also left her fatherless children to run for Congress just weeks after Sonny died, which makes her something less than the ideal person to be the official G.O.P. hand wringer over what to tell the children...
...Currently, Democrats are pushing to give each of Congress's 435 members five minutes to speak, which works out to a whopping 36 hours of wind from the Hill. Republicans, who want to get this to a vote by Saturday at the latest, will offer significantly less time...
...matter of principle: Stand behind the President in times of foreign conflict. Republicans, meanwhile, are hobbled by the calendar, says Carney. They don't want to impeach Clinton Christmas week or New Year's week, and they don't want the impeachment vote to slip over into the new Congress next month. Washington is now playing the endgame of a chess match in which either side could suddenly declare checkmate...