Word: congressman
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...political analysts like Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution, are as high as fifty-fifty. Republicans are already sounding the alarms, portraying Gephardt and his "radical roster" of paleoliberal committee chairmen in the grimmest terms. "We're the only thing that stands between Clinton and devastation," says California Congressman David Dreier...
...plan, Congress will leave Washington knowing that marriage is safe. Listening to debate about the bill, one began to wonder how America's foundation had survived so long without legal protection from gay couples indulging in adjustable-rate mortgages and life insurance. That is an interesting question for Congressman Barr, as is this: Which of his own marriages is he trying to protect: the first, the second or the third...
...Democrat. The next year, at elite Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, Morris joined the debate club, displaying a talent for arguing any side of any issue ("Truth is that which cannot be proved false," he said) and teaming up with a group of budding pols that included future Congressman Jerrold Nadler and state assemblyman Richard Gottfried. "Dick was always the leader," says Gottfried, "the most creative thinker, the most energetic worker, the one on the phone at 2 in the morning telling you what had to be done. He was already that...
...tell her to get off welfare and work, but you're not going to help her with childcare, or job training, and she doesn't have the education to get a job. We're going to have children on the street, going without food, education, medicine, vaccinations." New York Congressman Charles Rangel expects the cycle of despair among the poor to grow worse. "There are no jobs. This Administration is going to work hard to create jobs for these people, but the jobs won't be there in time for all these impoverished families whose benefits are going...
Comedy Central also broadcast its hit nightly round-table show, Politically Incorrect, live from San Diego. As always, the show featured panels of egregiously mismatched guests--one group last week included Oliver North, Georgia Congressman Bob Barr and Vicki Lawrence. Unlike the honchos at MTV, who had rapper Chuck D conduct an unamusing interview with Strom Thurmond during that network's convention coverage, the producers of Politically Incorrect understand that incongruous pairings are not necessarily entertaining in and of themselves. Host Bill Maher, TV's nimblest conversationalist, asked his Tuesday panel what party Jesus would join if were he alive...