Word: congressman
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...perhaps the strongest pressure for maintaining a well-equipped military is economic: defense spending amounts to a domestic-jobs program. Congressman Floyd Spence, who chairs the National Security Committee and hails from a South Carolina district bristling with military facilities, proposed in February that Congress boost Pentagon spending $125 billion more than Clinton had proposed for the next five years. But Spence ran into spending slasher John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee. A frustrated Spence even accused Kasich of "siding with people who want to destroy our nation's defense." Kasich prevailed, but knows his own limits...
...level. Such facts raise embarrassing questions for the Clinton Administration, which fought so hard for NAFTA and has bailed out Mexico by issuing loan guarantees that will cost the U.S. $20 billion if Mexico defaults. "Mexico is not a stable country right now," says Indiana Republican Congressman Dan Burton, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee. "It's almost, although not quite, a narco-democracy...
...Congressman John Kasich of Ohio, 43, author of the most radical U.S. budget plan in decades, talked last week with Time correspondent Karen Tumulty about the political climate that has suddenly made a balanced budget "a very doable deal...
...that she was Orange County [Texas] Republican chairman for a while, and then I heard she just up and disappeared." In fact, according to the woman, Libby Molley, Stockman has helped out Koernke's broadcast by providing "us with information." Stockman's chief of staff explained that the Congressman's office may have sent Wolverine information on the Contract with America, the Republican agenda, but no one knew anything about Koernke or his views...
...turning darkly against Arab Americans--at least for as long as it was supposed that the Oklahoma blast might be the work of Islamic terrorists. In a replay of the harassment they suffered during the Gulf War, mosques reported receiving telephone threats. On Larry King Live, former Oklahoma Congressman Dave McCurdy pointed to an Islamic conference, full of fire-breathing rhetoric that was held in Oklahoma City in 1992. That was one reason, he said, that he knew terrorism "could happen here...