Word: congressman
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Whoever is chosen to replace Rich Bond as party chairman next January will face the task of reuniting the fractious G.O.P. Departing Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber seems the favorite for the job, partly because he is a straight-talking pol who kept his head above water while the President was drowning in his futile re-election bid. Du Pont also wants the party job, and has hinted he would forgo another run at the White House if he got it. Gramm and many moderate Bush operatives believe Labor Secretary Lynn Martin would do a better job of preventing the party...
...property to civilian use, but it has also insisted that facilities be turned over environmentally clean. Nonetheless, communities have shied away from accepting future liability for any of the sites, and some transfers seem likely to drag on for decades. President Bush last month signed a bill sponsored by Congressman Leon Panetta designed to streamline procedures - for allowing certain portions of the bases to be turned over piece by piece, and for assuring that the Federal Government remains responsible for any future cleanup problems...
...COLD WAR MYSTERIES, NONE WAS AS perplexing as the espionage case against Alger Hiss. A former State Department official, he was accused in 1948 of spying for the Soviets, tried before a House committee led by Congressman Richard Nixon, and served a four-year term for perjury. Yet he has staunchly maintained his innocence, even in the face of microfilm evidence produced by former TIME editor Whittaker Chambers. Now comes word from an unlikely but authoritative source that Hiss, 87, may not have spied. After researching "a great amount of materials," General Dmitri Volkogonov, chairman of the Russian government...
...real issue, however, has become Wilson himself. At 59, he's an old-style politician who, as his ads say, "takes care of the home folks." He pushes through more Social Security and Veterans Administration cases for his constituents than perhaps any other Congressman. Though he also champions women's rights and supports the right to abortion, he has a reputation as an aging Lothario. (On one taxpayer-supported foray to Pakistan, he took along a voluptuous former beauty queen.) This year hot checks have been his weak point. Peterson calls Congress a "check-bouncing, debt-ridden retirement village." Though...
George White, North Carolina's last black Congressman, left Washington in 1901. But first he offered a prediction to his colleagues on the floor of the House. "This is perhaps the Negro's temporary farewell to the American Congress," he said. "Phoenix-like he will rise up someday and come again." It took just over 90 years for the state to send another black to Washington, but here he comes: attorney Mel Watt is one of two African-American candidates considered all-but-certain winners in new North Carolina congressional districts that have black majorities...