Word: congress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican revolution is over. Speaker Newt Gingrich, the confrontational rebel who engineered the GOP's 1994 takeover of the House after more than four decades of Democratic dominance, announced Friday that he would resign from the Congress, just three days after midterm elections which reduced the Republican advantage to a thin 11-vote margin...
...most pressing concern for both parties, however, should be recovering from Gingrich's tenure. The Speaker can retire with the satisfaction of having revolutionized his party's leadership and ended years of Democratic domination in the House. But his confrontational tactics have poisoned Congress, and his mean-spirited politicking has enraged voters...
...Walk Through the Computer 2000. Ever wondered how that creature on your desk actually functions? This two story working model of a personal computer allows visitors to explore the world of their PCs. Dance on the keyboard or dive into the ethernet card at the Computer Museum. 300 Congress...
...This was disappointing for us because we hadsuch great expectations. But when you take a stepback, we held Congress for the third time in arow," Mahoney said...
...problem is Glass-Steagall, a Depression-era law that bars U.S. banks from uniting with brokerages and vice versa. In Congress the quid pro quo for knocking it down is expanding the mandated banking welfare program known as the Community Reinvestment Act, which mandates low-interest loans in high-risk inner cities. The banks are willing to go along -- "they know that they won't get deregulation without a compromise," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl -- but Gramm...