Word: congressman
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JAMES CARNEY, TIME's Capitol Hill correspondent, told Nation editor Priscilla Painton two weeks ago that Texas Congressman Tom DeLay would play a major role in the impeachment hearings. "In the absence of any other Republican leader, he's taking the reins," says Carney of the man he and fellow congressional correspondent John Dickerson profile this week. Carney's prescience has proved invaluable during his 10 years at TIME, which has included stints as a correspondent at the White House, in Moscow and in Miami. "He's wired into what's happening on the Hill," says Painton...
DIED. DANTE FASCELL, 81, powerful South Florida Congressman and longtime Foreign Affairs Committee chairman; in Clearwater, Fla. Serving from 1955 to 1992, Fascell steered U.S. policy into hard-line stances against Cuba and Central America...
DIED. ALBERT GORE SR., 90, former Tennessee Congressman and Senator and father of the Vice President; in Carthage. A key mover behind the interstate highway system and a Southern liberal who took unpopular stands against segregation and the Vietnam War, he once advised his son not to settle for the No. 2 spot, calling it a "dead-end street...
...paraphrase another Arizona legislator, humor in the defense of politics is no vice. On the other hand, it can take you only so far in national politics. Just ask Bob Dole, a genuinely funny man. And just ask Morris Udall, the 30-year congressman and presidential wannabe who died Sunday at the age of 76 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. His quick, self-deprecating wit helped Udall make it through a series of disappointments while trying for higher office, including a disastrous attempt at the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976. A story Udall told for years afterward...
...Economists chattered about a "plateau of permanent prosperity"--sound familiar? The men who wrote about business were either hacks in eyeshades or dandy dilettantes who looked like escapees from The Great Gatsby--or crooks. A couple of Journal columnists planted their bylines above stories prewritten by corporate flacks; crusading Congressman Fiorello La Guardia exposed them by producing the canceled checks that the writers had accepted...