Word: congressman
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Jerry Bruno knows all about his Congressman. He can't help it. The retired college professor who lives in Portland, Maine, is not a political junkie or even someone whose money and clout might be worth the attention. But all through the day, he is barraged with information about Republican James Longley. A stranger calls on the phone to praise Longley as a "friend of small business." A radio spot touts the lawmaker's "antigovernment" stands. A TV ad complains that Longley is the victim of "cheap shots" by "Big Labor bosses." Then there's the whole series of anti...
...cruise-line companies from lawsuits by women who are raped aboard their ships." This is absolutely false. The House bill does no such thing. In fact, it expressly protects the right to sue if there is substantial physical injury, the threat of such injury or an intentional act. Moreover, Congressman Shuster's position on this issue has been clear and unwavering. In November 1995, in a letter to members of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, he wrote, "I would never support a provision which would immunize cruise lines from liability for rapes." Your item seems...
...such case is in Columbus, Ohio. For almost 14 years it had passed without comment that the local Congressman, John Kasich, the powerful chairman of the House Budget Committee, stretches his paycheck by sharing a Virginia town house for the two or three nights a week that Congress is in session. His housemate? His male chief of staff. Last month Cynthia Ruccia, Kasich's Democratic challenger, called for a Justice Department investigation of what she said was "a serious appearance of impropriety" because Kasich, who is divorced, lived with someone whose government salary he controls...
...backdrop to the latest episodes of who sleeps with whom, there is also the pre-emptive self-outing of divorced Arizona Congressman Jim Kolbe. Two weeks after voting for the bill restricting gay marriage, Kolbe, a Republican, went public with his homosexuality, which had been an open secret around Washington, to pre-empt an article that he knew was coming in the national gay magazine Advocate. Kolbe later won a primary race, but with well under the 80% margin he had enjoyed over the same candidate two years...
...race, which pits Pressler against the state's lone Congressman, the popular Tim Johnson, has drawn attention far beyond this sparsely populated state. The Democrats have long seen it as their best chance of unseating a Republican Senator and a virtual must win if they are to retake the Senate. But the race is turning out to be among the year's nastiest. And because of a combination of huge war chests and cheap media markets, the bitterness is being played out in ads that may reach record levels of saturation for a statewide race...