Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week after the phone call, Richardson and a State Department team were flying over Gogrial, where tires had to be cleared from a dirt airfield below so they could land. "I get out of the plane, and it's a surreal scene from a Tarzan movie," the Congressman recalls. A delegation of threadbare Dinka fighters from Kerubino's army lined up to greet him. Richardson had on a tie and the same blazer he'd worn for good luck in every other hostage negotiation...
...Orange County, California, to Hispanic financial analyst Loretta Sanchez. Threatening to sue her for election fraud, Dornan called Sanchez a "liar" and said "the whole thing stinks to high heaven." Of course, sour grapes were to be expected from the former fighter pilot who once grabbed a fellow Congressman by the collar and called him a "draft-dodging wimp." Sanchez's campaign manager, John Shallman, spoke for many when he said of Dornan, "He's been, and continues to be, a national disgrace. All we can say is: Adios." The bad news is that Dornan will now have more time...
...Part of being an effective Congressman is building good relations, and I wanted to do it on both sides of the aisle," said Rep.-Elect Asa Hutchinson...
...fund-raising scandal will be a man who has never pretended to be impartial. Dan Burton has described himself as a partisan "pit bull," and once performed a re-enactment of Vince Foster's death by shooting bullets into a "headlike object" in his own yard. But the G.O.P. Congressman from Indianapolis insists he wants to make a fresh start in January, when he will take command of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, the panel that does most of the investigating when the White House is accused of wrongdoing. Burton, 58, promises he will be able...
...REYNOLDS While former Congressman is in jail, he and broke wife Marisol are arraigned for fraud...