Word: congressman
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...resist acts of terror," President Clinton ordered far morestringent security measuresto be put in place at all federal buildings in Washington. In the last two days, bomb threats have been made in seven other cities. All international airports remain in a heightened state of alert. On Capitol Hill, Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde said he will toughen the Clinton administration's anti-terrorism bill to prevent members of terrorist organizations from entering the country. Clinton's proposed legislation would make terrorist acts within the U. S. a federal offense. Hyde's bill would also toughen visa and asylum procedures. He said...
Nina Solarz, wife of former New York congressman Stephen Solarz, agreed today to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of writing a bad check on her husband's House bank account and improperly taking $7,500 from the American Friends of Turkish Women, a charity she runs. Mrs. Solarz admitted that she knew her husband's House account was overdrawn when she ordered a congressional staffer to write a check for $5,200 in 1990. She is not expected to serve jailtime. Ex-Rep. Solarz, who himself had a large number of overdrafts from the House Bank, was cleared...
...years no one openly challenged the deal's structure, although CBS in 1990-91 did try in vain to persuade a senior Congressman and two newspapers to investigate. Virtually anyone can challenge renewals or transfers of broadcast licenses, a practice that acknowledges that the airwaves are public property, at least in theory. Enter David Honig, a Washington lawyer who often represents the interests of minority clients before the FCC. He too had wondered about the deal and, in mid-1993, found the time and a willing client, a unit of the N.A.A.C.P., to allow him to do the necessary digging...
...well as novels by Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins. Imitating Gingrich's rapid-fire delivery, Farley then pushed through bills declaring all Democrats officially weird and moving the nation's capital to Atlanta. He also proposed that Sonny Bono sing I've Got You, Newt, but the freshman Congressman, in a rare display of stage shyness, politely declined...
...quotas. In a CNN interview today, Dornan promised to name his running mate by Christmas and that "that man or woman of course will be conservative, but will most probably be of Jewish heritage or African-American heritage." Tired of senators' frequent appearances on national tickets, the congressman also pledged to select most of his Cabinet secretaries from the House of Representatives if he wins...