Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growers won the price-support battle in late February, when a bizarre coalition of half a dozen Republicans and Democrats changed their votes to defeat a measure by Florida Congressman Dan Miller, a Republican, and New York Democrat Charles Schumer to scuttle the program. Democrats were worried that killing the program would hurt their chances of winning back the House in the fall elections. Oddly, some Republicans also voiced election concerns; others were most concerned that their cherished farm bill could not pass without the price supports for sugar...
...That's what I felt when Massachussetts Governor Bill Weld gerrymandered my hometown--Northampton--out of the 1st congressional district for the sole purpose of trying to get a Republican into Massachusetts' delegation. The summer after 10th grade, I had spent a month volunteering for the campaign of my congressman, John Olver, a retired UMass chemistry professor. I had attended his frenetic victory party, filled with hope for this system I had--or so I thought--learned to work within. Liberalism had its moment in the sun and I felt a part...
Still not content, Suponcic contacted Steven LaTourette, the U.S. Congressman who represents his district. LaTourette's staff suspects that the problem lies with Julf Helsingius, the Finn who runs the anonymous remailer. They wrote a letter to the Finnish ambassador and sent copies to the Secretary of State and the chairman of the House Committee on International Relations. The State Department agreed last week to look into the complaint...
...woman in tow. Hillary was putting on a brave face, but the incident was stirring up a buzz, and Susan could tell she was upset. She went over to commiserate with the state's new first lady, sharing an observation she'd got from Betty Tucker, wife of then Congressman Jim Guy Tucker. "Betty told me," Susan confided, "that it doesn't change from the local, to the state, to the federal level. The girls just get prettier...
...industry has a remarkable ability to shift gears. "Ninety-five different things have come out in the past, and you have the anti-tobacco people saying this is it, this is going to be the case that brings victory," he says. "But it's a pretty high hurdle." As Congressman Waxman concedes, "Tobacco companies are the strongest special-interest group in Washington...