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...couldn't get a job with the CIA today. I am not qualified." PORTER GOSS, U.S. Congressman and ex-CIA operative, in an outtake from Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, released after President Bush's nomination of Goss as the agency's director...
...Venezuela's elite, whose corruption has left two-thirds of the population in poverty. Among the poor was Rodriguez's farming family. It made him all the more receptive to economists like Bernard Mommer, a German-born Marxist who taught Rodriguez at Caracas' Central University. As a Congressman, Rodriguez chafed in the 1990s as PDVSA opened up to what he considered excessive foreign investment and hiked production...
...representing Hollywood doesn't sound like a natural for a former Secretary of Agriculture. But Dan Glickman, who also served as a nine-term Congressman from Kansas, is the man the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has tapped to succeed the inimitable Jack Valenti as its president. TIME's Sonja Steptoe quizzed him about his new role...
...style is to be a diplomat, not a bomb thrower." DAN GLICKMAN, onetime Congressman and Secretary of Agriculture, just named to succeed Jack Valenti as chief lobbyist for the Motion Picture Association of America...
Instead, the feud worsened. In early 1793, a Virginia Congressman named William Branch Giles began to harry Hamilton with resolutions ordering him to produce, on short deadlines, stupendous amounts of Treasury data. With prodigious bursts of energy, Hamilton complied with those inhuman demands, foiling his opponents. Jefferson then committed an unthinkable act. He secretly drafted a series of anti-Hamilton resolutions for Giles, including one that read, "Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury has been guilty of maladministration in the duties of his office and should, in the opinion of Congress, be removed from his office by the President...