Word: congressman
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Like other political movements before it, the radical right in America today has its extremist component, which plainly was a force in the 1994 elections. For instance, George Nethercutt, the giant-slayer Congressman who knocked off former House Speaker Tom Foley in Washington State, drew strength from radio shows where callers talked about sightings of black helicopters and U.N. plans to set up a secret compound in the state. In neighboring Idaho, Helen Chenoweth upended an environmentalist Democratic incumbent in part by saying that the only endangered species was the "white Anglo-Saxon male...
...career makes clear that he is able--and willing--to argue any side of a political issue in order to win, a telling trait his buddy Clinton has also been accused of possessing. At the same time, no amount of accommodation seems to placate Southern conservatives. Last week Congressman Nathan Deal of Georgia became the nation's 78th elected Democrat to become a Republican since Clinton's election, and others are expected to follow suit or to quit rather than make the switch. "Democrats have gotten over denial, and now they are in shock about their future," concludes James Thurber...
...Spence Abraham have been personally dunning CEOs. But the hard sell is not necessary. The PAC of the big-time lobbying law firm Verner Liipfert, for one, has already decided to give at least 60% of its money to Republicans; it used to give 70% to Democrats. And Congressman Deal has been getting a different kind of payoff for his recent switch: his calls have been running 3 to 1 in favor of his becoming a Republican...
...bills dismantling protection of air and water simply right-wing truculence? If not, are they badly aimed populism? The answer is not deeply buried: corporate America, generous with PAC contributions, is the clear and highly appreciative beneficiary. One spitball of a bill, written for Republican Congressman Slade Gorton of Washington by lawyers for logging, mining, grazing and utility corporations, would junk large sections of the Endangered Species Act. Gorton told the New York Times that he did not consult environmentalists about the bill because "I already know what their views...
Senate majority leader Bob Dole, the current Republican front runner, made it official and formally declared he is a candidate for President. He was followed into the ring by one of the G.O.P.'s darker horses: California Congressman Bob Dornan, an ultra-conservative firebrand. Dornan becomes the seventh Republican to enter the race...