Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...firm, Skadden Arps; hired one of the town's best-connected lobbyists, Rob Leonard; and got several of his well-connected friends to telephone a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Robert Matsui. One of the callers was Matsui's campaign treasurer, a man the Congressman rarely ignores...
...Missouri, California and South Carolina--many party members, particularly those in the Northeast and Midwest, continue to downplay his chances of winning the Republican nomination in 1996. But the doubters are beginning to wane. "Having known him for 24 years," says longtime Texas political foe Chet Edwards, a Democratic Congressman, "I say anybody who doesn't take Phil Gramm seriously either doesn't know him or is crazy...
Inside the 32nd Democratic ward headquarters in Chicago, Nancy Panzke's phone still rings. "Congressman Dan Rostenkowski's office," she answers, responding to the hundreds of favor seekers who have called since last November's election, unaware that the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee lost. Panzke, who has worked for Rostenkowski for 27 years, theorizes that voters only wanted to give him a scare: "I don't think anyone thought he'd really lose." Ring! A citizen is seeking help about a park. "You've got to do this," he insists. "I pay your salary...
...White House Lyndon Johnson stopped by an F.D.R. bust and cradled the bronze chin in his big palm. "Look at that strength," he said to his companion. Then he stroked the Roosevelt face in tribute, his mind reaching back to when he was a young Texas Congressman, watching in awe as F.D.R. steadied the nation in depression and commanded it in war. After nearly 50 years of trying, the U.S. at last seems ready to complete a major Roosevelt memorial in Washington. Or maybe...
...presidential wannabes bundled off to New Hampshire to strut their stuff at a fund raiser. Led by a schmoozy Bob Dole ("I'm a little more realistic, a little more relaxed"), the group, which included Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, California Congressman Robert Dornan, Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, former Labor Secretary Lynn Martin and ex-State Department official Alan Keyes, took turns bashing Bill Clinton and trying to distinguish themselves from one another...