Word: congressman
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...largest city. "I am convinced the South is the promised land," says the tall, energetic Espy, cutting patterns in the air with powerful hands. "Blacks turned to the North and West for promises that were largely unfulfilled. They are coming home." The mayor's brother, Mike Espy, is Congressman for 22 counties in the heart of the Delta. He was elected in 1986 -- over Webb Franklin, a white lawyer -- with the support of only 15% of the white voters. Last year he got 70% of the white vote...
...endangered as well. Faye Wattleton, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which operates nearly 900 clinics in 49 states, called the decision to halt abortion counseling "an unimaginable blow to free speech." From Capitol Hill came rumblings that liberty of expression had been, as Democratic Congressman Ron Wyden of Oregon put it, "thrown into the trash can." But the toughest counterpunch was landed by Blackmun, who charged the court with "viewpoint- based suppression of speech...
...Democrats into choosing between two important constituencies, labor and Hispanics. Just as Bush hoped, the Democratic National Committee recently denounced fast-track authorization, which put them on the side of the shrinking constituency, against the growing one. "The party is not looking at the numbers," said a Democratic Congressman who supported fast track. "They're choosing the protectionist label over a community that will be the largest ethnic minority in 10 years...
...analysts, insisting that reports be made less cautiously academic and more relevant to policymakers, addressing their concerns bluntly, concisely and accurately. He demanded each analyst's "best estimate" on difficult questions, and tracked such judgments on scorecards that influenced promotions. Some analysts considered Gates a little Napoleon. But Congressman Dave McCurdy, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, says he witnessed a "remarkable" improvement in the quality of CIA reports prepared under Gates...
While working toward a doctorate in that subject at the University of Wisconsin, Cheney plunged into politics and hardly ever looked back. He went to Washington in 1968 as a staffer to a Republican Congressman, who soon loaned him to Donald Rumsfeld, head of the Office of Economic Opportunity. When Rumsfeld moved to Nixon's White House as counsellor, Cheney went along as his deputy. He escaped the Watergate tarnish by resigning in 1973 to work for a firm of Washington lobbyists...