Word: congressman
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Tsongas did not make the final list of six candidates: Harris Wofford, who had pulled an enormous upset by winning a Pennsylvania senatorial election in 1991; Florida Senator Bob Graham; West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller; Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton; Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, a war-hero opponent of Clinton's in the early primaries; and Al Gore. The Tennessee Senator seemed an unlikely choice. A Southerner from a neighboring state, he hardly gives the ticket much balance, and Clinton had refused Gore's bid for support in Gore's 1988 presidential campaign. This time, though, Clinton developed such deep rapport...
...Murray, who is running for the Senate in the State of Washington, stands out as an original. The 41-year-old state legislator and community-college teacher likes to call herself "a mom in tennis shoes." Going toe-to-toe on the footwear symbolism, her Republican opponent, five-time Congressman Rod Chandler, has taken to wearing cowboy boots. But no amount of heavy stomping on the campaign trail has yet put him ahead of a woman whose campaign slogan could be "Mother knows best." "I tell people I am a mom caring for two kids and two aging parents with...
...Drogoul was to be sentenced, Congressman Henry Gonzalez, who had been looking into the case for two years, announced that he had a summary of classified CIA cables regarding B.N.L.-Rome's knowledge of the banker's activities. Judge Shoob immediately asked for an explanation. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Urgenson requested that the CIA declassify the Sept. 4 letter so it could be given to Shoob along with the report and the cables that had gone to Gonzalez. According to Urgenson, CIA counsel George Jameson acknowledged that the letter was misleading and asked whether the CIA should redraft it. Urgenson...
...scramble for the new Administration's 3,000 appointed jobs has already reached a fever pitch -- as has the inevitable speculation about candidates for the plum posts. For Defense Secretary, there is talk of a three-way race between House Armed Services Committee chairman Les Aspin, Oklahoma Congressman Dave McCurdy and Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn. Retiring Colorado Senator Tim Wirth has been dubbed a possible Secretary of the Interior or Energy. Among the dozen or so names mentioned for Secretary of State, the leading candidate seems to be Warren Christopher, deputy secretary in the Carter Administration...
...influence. During the past decade, Mas' members have donated $1.1 million in campaign contributions; Mas himself is the biggest Hispanic contributor nationwide. In this election year, more than $200,000 has gone to lobbying efforts and campaign contributions for sympathetic Congressmen -- mostly Democrats -- including $26,750 to New Jersey Congressman Robert Torricelli, principal sponsor of the Cuban Democracy Act. But President Bush has received the bulk of the foundation's presidential contribution: $57,000, vs. $1,750 for Clinton...