Word: congress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lecturer Mimi Koehl, a biologist who studies biofluid dynamics at the University of California at Berkeley, delivered her lecture on the aerodynamics of Congress...
...lecture, she reached the conclusion that, due to Congress' slow speed and enormous drag, it would have almost no lift and make no progress. However, she added, Americans should take heart at the fact that Congress is almost powerless--scientifically speaking--as well...
...hard-working families" - and you can certainly see why GOP whipmeister Tom DeLay is less than pleased. "It's obvious," DeLay snapped after a gleeful Democrat read him Bush?s comments in the middle of negotiations over that very issue, "the governor's got a lot to learn about Congress...
...that this Congress has a lot to learn about public relations? The GOP wheeled out House golden boy J. C. Watts Thursday to explain that the re-jiggering only meant 12 monthly payments to these families (just like his own back in the Dust Bowl) instead of one lump sum. But factor in inflation, and whatever interest might be earned by socking the money away, and what the Republicans are offering is undeniably less money. Worse, it sounds heartless, especially within the context of an ugly budget that?s already breaking the fiscal bank in a hundred other ways. These...
...last week's decision to sue cannot alone lift the heavy cloud of deceit shrouding the actions of cigarette manufacturers. Congress must grant the Justice Department's request for $20 million for expert witnesses and government lawyers in order to make the lawsuit viable. And the Justice Department itself must permit evidence gathered in a five year long criminal investigation of cigarette manufacturers to be used in the civil lawsuit so tax payer dollars aren't unnecessarily wasted in a duplication of efforts...