Word: congressman
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...Senate Labor and Senate Finance bills offer a package similar to the current Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan, which Hillary Rodham Clinton describes as "the type of coverage your Congressman has." The House Labor and Education and House Ways and Means benefits packages are both modeled on Medicare and include substance-abuse treatment and coverage of abortions. Both Senate Labor and Human Resources and House Education and Labor bills cover prescription drugs. Senate Finance's provides home care for the disabled. The Dole plan, like the Clinton plan, requires that insurers offer at least 1 of 3 options...
...Begala felt as if he were from a different country than some of the senior Clinton officials ... The worst of them, Begala felt, was Leon Panetta, the former congressman from Carmel Valley. Begala felt that of all 435 congressional districts, Panetta's was least representative of America -- the pure, elitist, unreal world of California dreaming. Panetta seemed to love talking about nothing more than deficit reduction ... In private, ((Begala)) began applying a new label to the budget director: 'The Poster Boy for ) Economic Constipation."' -- from Bob Woodward's The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House
Bill Clinton enjoys wrapping his lips around an unlit cigar. A top source at a local tobacconist's claims the President "smokes" Hoyo De Monterre Excalibur 1s ... The FDA's David Kessler admits to collegiate pipe smoking ... Anti- tobacco Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) used to be a two-pack-a-day man ... Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia smoke cigars. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a social cigarette smoker. At Clinton's Inauguration, he's rumored to have bummed a cigarette from Senator Wendell Ford...
...equal-opportunity lampoonist, Stamaty, 46, joyfully skewers both ends of the political spectrum and all points in between. His best-known character, Bob Forehead, is an earnest, airheaded Congressman who resembles John F. Kennedy, spouts conservative shibboleths and has seldom had a thought that didn't come straight from his political handlers...
...long ago, Democrats believed that Dianne Feinstein's seat in the Senate was one they could count on. No longer. Their confidence has ebbed since the emergence of Republican challenger Michael Huffington and his $75 million personal fortune. Huffington, a freshman Congressman from Santa Barbara, California, waltzed easily last week to a primary victory over his Republican challengers. Money has been a prime factor. The oil tycoon has so far spent $6.6 million of his own cash on TV advertising and other promotion, most of it attacking Feinstein as a political hack. As a result, "the race...