Word: congressman
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...ANGELES: What does it take to kick a congressman out of office? Apparently more than a corruption conviction. After Rep. Jay Kim and his wife yesterday pleaded guilty to accepting and hiding $230,000 inillegal campaign contributions from corporations and foreign citizens, the California congressman's attorney said Kim plans to remain in office -- and even run for re-election next year...
...what you can do for your cousin, but what you can do for his magazine,'' the congressman said at a press conference in Chelsea, Mass., parodying Uncle John's famous inaugural epithet. Touch?...
...Congressman Tom Delay, the pest-control expert from Laredo, Texas, knows all about the black art of extermination. So how did the majority whip so thoroughly botch the job he undertook two weeks ago, when he tried to eradicate a king-size Newt...
...squad has already claimed its first victim: Paxon, the most trusted of Gingrich's lieutenants. When Gingrich was launching his bid to take control of the House in 1994, he chose the New York Congressman to run the committee that holds the G.O.P.'s campaign purse strings. When ethics allegations threatened to cost the Speaker his post, he put Paxon in charge of his re-election. And whenever Newt needed someone to defend him on television, Paxon was willing to aim his happy, preppy face toward the camera. Last Tuesday, as Gingrich touted G.O.P. tax cuts under a sweltering...
...military power. Last week the stronger faction, led by former Khmer Rouge cadre Hun Sen, overthrew "co-Prime Minister" Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who escaped in advance of the tanks. "The international community gave them [Cambodians] a chance to recover from the ravages of civil war," said former U.S. Congressman Stephen Solarz, an architect of the $2 billion U.N. effort that stabilized the country in advance of the 1993 election, "and they appear to have blown...