Word: congressman
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More bad news arrived two months ago, when the Washington Post reported that Mark Siegel, a former lobbyist for Pakistan and a longtime Democratic activist, had accused Burton of threatening to cut off his access to other lawmakers last year if he didn't deliver $5,000 to the Congressman's campaign. Burton admits he solicited the money from Siegel and was disappointed when Siegel didn't deliver, but he denies making any threats. Siegel has since been called to testify before a federal grand jury...
...Washington facts sometimes tend to mislead. All the facts sometimes tend to mislead absolutely." This play on Lord Acton's pontification about the corrupting effects of power appeared 24 years ago in Ward Just's The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert. Since then, Just has published more than a dozen works of political fiction that have done what journalism rarely accomplishes: dramatize the work of government through complex characters whose heavy responsibilities defy easy moralizing...
...Huich'on kindergarten in central North Korea, the starving children appear almost skeletal. Nurses in Pyongyang hospitals can see their breath because the buildings have no heat. U.S. Congressman Tony Hall, on a visit to North Korea, spotted a teenage girl, so malnourished she looked like a six- or seven-year-old, picking weeds and grass to eat. Emergency food shipments from China, South Korea, Europe and the U.S. are being rushed in, but U.S. intelligence agencies warn that not enough will arrive in time to prevent tens of thousands from starving to death. North Korea, says World Food Program...
These days, Jackson says he considers Gore "a very decent man." But some members of the Congressional Black Caucus have a new grievance against Gore. Last week the caucus drafted a letter to Clinton demanding to know why former Louisiana Congressman Cleo Fields did not get a high-level appointment. Fields' backers had been led to believe he had earned one after Gore persuaded him to set aside his differences with Senate candidate Mary Landrieu and help her win the race. When Fields showed up for work in Washington on March 31, he found that the prestigious...
DIED. CHARLES HAYES, 79, Democratic ex-Congressman, labor organizer and civil rights leader who was toppled in 1992 by the House check scandal; in Hazel Crest, Illinois. A Martin Luther King ally in Chicago, he was instrumental in helping elect Harold Washington as the city's first black mayor...