Word: congressman
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...State of the Union address and the announced verdict of the O.J. Simpson civil trial. Observers on television and in print tried to only connect--the President's reference to race troubles and the allegedly mythic figure of O.J. and the appearance of J.C. Watts Jr., the African-American Congressman who was selected to give the g.o.p. response. There was no logical relationship among these pieces; connections had to be forced. It was too hard to give disintegration its due, much less to take satisfaction in it. We are naturally antianarchic, pro-stability, pro-union...
Boggs, who once worked for former Democratic Congressman Robert Kastenmeier, is the company's top staff lobbyist and its point man on all federal legislation, including the sweeping telecommunications bill signed by Clinton early in 1996. Time Warner employed Hubbell during a period when its political contributions favored the Democrats. During 1993 and 1994 its political-action committee gave Democratic candidates $141,000--nearly $50,000 more than it gave Republicans...
...prosaic things of government (Social Security, balanced budget, education), he may climb up beside Roosevelt. But Hayes was not able to do it, even though he was a Civil War hero who, wounded five times and repeatedly cited for bravery, rose from major to general, and in office (Congressman, Governor, Senator and President) was judged to be intelligent, informed, squeaky clean and fully engaged with the issues before him. But there was no world or national upheaval worthy of the name...
DIED. FRANK TEJEDA, 51, U.S. Representative from Texas; of pneumonia after battling a brain tumor; in San Antonio. The Democrat rose from high school dropout to lawyer to first Congressman from the new Hispanic 28th District...
...what has become a State of the Union tradition, Clinton singled out the mother of Frank Tejeda, the late Texas Congressman, and the newly-elected Washington governor Gary Locke, the first Chinese American governor, as Americans who have led the way to a better future. He closed with this call to action...