Word: congressman
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...Congressman Richard Gephardt, who had made Iowa his second home by February 1987, denies both that he is running again and that Farmer will be his top money man. "We have no campaign staff because we have no campaign," huffs press spokeswoman Deborah Johns. The strongest signal that Senator Lloyd Bentsen will not try again is his rejoining the exclusive private clubs from which he resigned during his vice-presidential bid. But fear of ridicule has not kept George McGovern, who lost 49 states in 1972, from announcing that if someone didn't get into this race soon, he would...
...White House chief of staff: Dick Cheney. After Ford lost the 1976 election, Cheney decided to run for Congress in his home state of Wyoming. Ford's political instincts stirred again. "I went right out to campaign for him," he says. Cheney won and became a respected and powerful Congressman -- until Bush made him Secretary of Defense...
...generals talk less in terms of time than of conditions. The primary one is that a land offensive should be launched only when bombing has softened the Iraqi defenses to the maximum extent possible. There is agreement that, as one Congressman emerging from the Cheney-Powell briefing said, "we're still some distance from achieving the necessary kill level of tanks and artillery." But how soon might that point be reached? That, says General Norman Schwarzkopf, top allied commander in the gulf, involves a "compendium of actual results, measurable results, estimated results, anecdotal reports and gut feel...
Optimists insist that Arab governments that are members of the alliance -- predominantly Saudi Arabia and Syria -- can maintain control, despite the surge of pro-Saddam feeling. Congressman Aspin concedes the growing strength of that sentiment. But he asserts that "those who might fall out of the coalition, either because of the impact on their public of the damage being inflicted on Iraq by the air campaign or because they want to pursue a diplomatic solution that falls short of our war aims, are not vital to the military campaign." Maybe, but some of the staunchest U.S. allies do not want...
Predicting the final shape of an energy plan is tricky. Energy politics don't divide along party lines. When the time comes to vote, liberal Democrats from oil-patch states, like Oklahoma Congressman Mike Synar, tend to line up with the petroleum industry. Detroit Democrats like Congressman Dingell back away from fuel-efficiency standards that are opposed by hometown automakers. And defenders of the environment can still turn up on both sides of the aisle. On Aug. 4, two days after the invasion of Kuwait, the House voted 281 to 82 effectively to ban for one year any drilling...