Word: congressman
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...hopes that the burning of the Amazon rain forest would be halted. But environmentalists are still waiting for Collor to prove that his commitment to saving the Amazon is more than public relations. "Lutzenberger has not presented one significant change in internal policy," says Fabio Feldmann, the only Brazilian congressman elected on a green platform...
...some voices are being raised. Amnesty International has asked for permission to send a team of observers to monitor future trials; Beijing has ! warned that outside attempts to influence China's judicial system "will get nowhere." And last week, Congressman Robert Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat and a member of the House subcommittee on Asian affairs, who was visiting Beijing, took up the issue of the detainees in discussions with Vice Foreign Minister Liu Huaqiu and other Chinese officials. Torricelli said he urged the government to grant amnesty to the detainees and explained that assuming the West no longer cared...
...Republican leader in the House, Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich is expected to support the policies of the Bush Administration. And Gingrich seems perfectly willing to oblige -- provided he can formulate those policies himself. Gingrich's sharp-tongued truculence, scathingly defined as "New- Newtism" by Budget Director Richard Darman, is at the core of a smoldering feud that has Republicans brawling like, well, Democrats. If it continues, the rift could hurt George Bush's chances for re-election...
Last week House Republicans sent two messages -- neither of them welcome -- to the White House. They re-elected Gingrich minority whip and retained Michigan Congressman Guy Vander Jagt as chairman of the G.O.P.'s House campaign committee, boldly rejecting White House-backed Tennessee Congressman Don Sundquist. That leaves in place the committee's co-chairman, Ed Rollins, who had infuriated Bush and White House chief of staff John Sununu by suggesting that G.O.P. candidates in last month's elections distance themselves from the President for reneging on his "no new taxes" pledge. Vander Jagt refuses to fire Rollins...
...risks and gave Walsh some time to gather evidence before putting North and Poindexter in the witness chair. But the legislators could not know three years ago that the appeals court would apply more stringent standards than ever before. Republican Senator Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton of Indiana, two of the senior members on the investigating committee, argue that granting immunity was correct regardless of the ultimate impact on the criminal cases. "You had a President on the razor's edge," says Hamilton. "People were talking about impeachment." By that reasoning...