Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House also set up "links" with government agencies, so it could obtain "information/resources" for those early supporters--a plan that sounds very much like trading official favors for contributions. Republicans found the documents highly provocative. "When it involves using government assets to aid in the political campaign," says Indiana Congressman David McIntosh, a leader of the House fund-raising probe, "that steps over the line and is, in fact, illegal...
...destroying my signs. Oh, how justice can be healing! On Feb. 26, a congressional committee voted to hold hearings on voter fraud in my still-contested election. That makes five ongoing election-fraud investigations in California's 46th District. I sign myself as the "once and future Congressman"... ROBERT K. DORNAN Garden Grove, California
...young Lott family returned to Pascagoula, where Trent practiced law. But after less than a year, the district's veteran Congressman, William Colmer, chairman of the rules committee and a staunch segregationist, offered Lott a top staff job. The family packed their belongings into a green Pontiac Bonneville and set out for Washington, as Tricia put it, "to stay a couple of years and see if we liked...
...instance, he opposed a Reagan-sponsored tax-reform bill that would have closed certain special-interest loopholes. That same year, Lott and Congressman Jack Kemp persuaded Reagan not to support the Republican Senate's efforts to reduce the cost of living allowances for Social Security, and the measure failed in the House. Two years later, Lott joined with Democrats to override Reagan's veto of a pork-larded highway bill, explaining that he wanted some of that spending for his district. And in 1990 he opposed President Bush over a deficit-reduction package that included both spending cuts...
...COBURN Republican Congressman loudly chastises nudity and violence in Schindler's List...