Word: congress
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...truth is, not even Clinton knows how many wild horses are left inside. Lewinsky changed everything; Judge Susan Webber Wright is said to be considering holding Clinton in contempt of court, and Jones' newly energized appeal was set to begin next month in Minnesota. And then there's Congress. If the President can settle before the vote on whether to open impeachment hearings, scheduled for October 5 or 6, he may well have done an end run around his conservative enemies on the Judiciary Committee. After all, how would it look if they voted for an inquiry when the original...
Hillary continues to show signs that she's fighting in her husband's corner again. The First Lady has made her most direct reference to the Lewinsky scandal since the Starr report was released; on the campaign trail in Seattle late Thursday, she lashed out at Congress for "doing stuff that doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the long-term future of America." The subtext: Either Hillary's been spending too much time lately watching "Casablanca" reruns, or she really has come around to the view that the problems of three little people -- herself, Clinton and Lewinsky...
...sign when you want the Speaker of the House to keep his mouth closed. We've spent the better part of the 104th Congress hoping that Newt Gingrich would zip it, and his reckless comments have resulted in his being considered merely laughable even when he occasionally says something rational...
...denying Gingrich a joint photo-op following their meeting Wednesday, perhaps the most potent political snub there is. It's a sign that Democrats are taking heart from the President's poll numbers and getting behind the White House's "censure plus" plan -- censure plus a personal apology to Congress, perhaps, or censure plus a large fine -- in an effort to get this over with. "Republicans have to face the reality that an overwhelming majority of the American people do not want the Clinton presidency to end," said New Jersey senator Robert Torricelli. "Reasonable people should come together...
WASHINGTON: That cash-hungry monster known as the International Space Station just keeps on growing. Now NASA wants an extra $660 million from Congress to help prop up the Russian end of the operation, and space agency officials admit the bail-out cost could spiral up to $1.3 billion. The ISS project is starting to look like a farcical inversion of the 60's space race -- by working together over the past four years, the two Cold War rivals have not managed to put a single component in Earth orbit. And then there's the bill, which keeps increasing exponentially...