Word: congressman
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Commercial fishing is important in Democratic Congressman Gerry Studds' Massachusetts district. Starting in 1988, owners of small fishing boats who pay crewmen with a share of the catch were required to withhold income tax and Social Security fees. Studds arranged to restore the crews' previous immunity from withholding, which means they may not fully pay their taxes. He has collected $10,475 from fishing PACs...
...positions. The next day, top congressional Democrats arrived for their daily 8 a.m. meeting in majority leader Richard Gephardt's office. All agreed that pushing for another victory over the President would be counterproductive. "We didn't win everything, but we got most of what we wanted," says Congressman Charles Schumer of New York, who had been among the group that most strongly urged for a steeply progressive tax plan. "It's like poker -- you have to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold...
Jack Kemp Housing and Urban Development. The quarterback turned Congressman turned Cabinet member behaves like a grumpy Supreme Court Justice, squawking about Bush's policy on China and Lithuania. Supply-sider Kemp wants to replace Trade Representative Carla Hills, but that's unlikely...
Long before they elected him mayor in 1987, Nashville voters knew that William H. Boner was no Goody Two-Shoes. As a Democratic Congressman he had been cited by the House ethics committee for milking campaign funds for personal gain. Before that, in 1985, federal prosecutors scrutinized some of the services he performed for a defense contractor who paid Boner's lawyer- wife Betty fees totaling $44,000 in 22 months. Still, when newly elected Mayor Boner exulted three years ago that he felt "like a child in a candy store," Nashvillians did not know just what he meant...
...their quest to safeguard domestic spending programs -- and enhance their populist appeal -- House Democrats are readying what they freely call a "soak-the-rich" tax plan. Conservative House Republicans are joining this philosophic fray with a vengeance. "We're not stating the position of the President," says Oklahoma Congressman Mickey Edwards, "nor are we stating what we think Democrats would vote for." There is a smoke-and-mirrors quality to their proposal, misleadingly billed as a tax hike on the rich. But it reflects a supply-side vision far closer in spirit to Ronald Reagan than to George Bush...