Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...innocence, the accusations against them seem destined to widen a web of suspicion that expands with each passing month. By last week, Ruiz Massieu's office had charged 15 people in the planning, execution and cover-up of his brother's death. Several are prominent officials, including a P.R.I. congressman who allegedly masterminded the killing and has since disappeared...
...that the voters have made their bed, they will have to sleep in it. Let's all hope, for their sakes, that Congressman John Fox doesn't snore too loudly...
...think a lot of people will want to be on my staff, but not because they're groupies. I understand there are some very ambitious people in Washington. They'll probably look at working for me as very high profile and want exposure, and those people I want." -- Congressman-elect Sonny Bono (R.- California...
...Capitol until now, it wasn't because he sugarcoats his message. Invited to the White House in March 1993 to offer his views on the Administration's new economic plan, he told Clinton . that the plan was dumb and would sink his presidency. Three months later, the Texas Congressman called Hillary Clinton a Marxist. He apologized -- and then promised to restrict his Marxist comparisons of the Clintons to Groucho, not Karl...
Armey's flair for pit-bull partisanship has catapulted him from obscurity to the upper ranks of the new Republican regime on Capitol Hill. Nine years ago, as a freshman Congressman, he was dismissed by the Almanac of American Politics as "hardly likely to be a power in the House." Now he stands ready to assume his job in the next Congress as majority leader and right-hand man to Newt Gingrich, the future Speaker of the House. That might not be the sort of influence one would expect from a man whose pickup truck sports a bumper sticker that...