Word: congressman
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Among Washington journalists who have covered him--and especially among those who covered him as a Congressman and Senator, before he slipped into the cocoon of the vice presidency--the line on Al Gore is nearly unanimous. In private the Vice President can be an inordinately charming fellow: informal, enthusiastic, self-deprecating, with the kind of knowing wit that many baby boomers admire. But switch on a TV camera or get him in front of a crowd, and a mysterious alchemy transforms him into solid oak. This is the Al Gore the public has come to know--something akin...
WASHINGTON: Could U.S.-Russian cooperation in space be in jeopardy? Congressional hearings on the issue started Thursday, and if House Science Committee chairman James Sensenbrenner gets his way, no more American astronauts will be sent to Mir. But the congressman's call for a NASA boycott of the embattled space station will likely fall on deaf ears because Michael Foale is no longer in much danger, reports TIME science correspondent Jeff Kluger. "A month ago Sensenbrenner's argument was strong," Kluger says, "but after the repair it got a little weaker. As it stands now, nobody is going...
WASHINGTON: If there's one thing a Congressman hates, it's looking like a tool of big business ? especially when it's a business as unpopular as Big Tobacco. Although a provision was quietly slipped into last month's tax-cut legislation allowing tobacco companies to use the cost of a gradual 15-cent per pack increase ? some $50 billion ? as a credit towards the proposed $368.5 billion national settlement, Senators began to disown the plan once it was made public. Wednesday, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to squash it altogether. "This is the kind of thing that no Congressman wants...
CHICAGO: Once he was a congressman, now he's a con ? but today he came a little closer to freedom. Former House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski entered a new kind of House yesterday ? a halfway house...
Where, oh, where is CHARLIE TRIE? Congressional investigators have been eager to question the former Little Rock restaurateur and friend of BILL CLINTON's who appears to have funneled foreign money to the Democrats. Trie hightailed it to China when the scandal heated up. A month ago, frustrated G.O.P. Congressman DAN BURTON asked the President to seek China's help in locating Trie. Lo and behold, two weeks ago, Beijing gave U.S. diplomats the name of the hotel Trie was holed up in, and they passed that along to Burton. But that hasn't permitted investigators to get any closer...