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...grabs in the presidential election, thanks to its having lost more than 250,000 jobs in the past three years. But Bush had dived into his internal Ohio polls, and he reassured LaTourette that the water was fine. "My numbers are great," Bush told the Congressman. "I'm going to connect with those people. I do care about them and their situation." To top it all off, Bush had a surprise in store. That afternoon he would finally nominate someone to fill the new job of manufacturing czar, which he had announced in another Ohio speech six months before...
...Missouri Congressman has mastered the attack-dog role, having spent the past year calling Bush a "miserable failure." He could swing his home state into Kerry's column and fire up union supporters. But he's the epitome of an Old Democrat, and if Bush is attacking Kerry's 19 years in Washington, what would he do with Gephardt's 28? Also, what happened to that union support in Iowa...
...month, his government spent more than $1 million a year on an army of U.S. lawyers and lobbyists. (Nations of similar population and economic means, like Cambodia, typically spend less than a tenth as much on Beltway lobbyists.) Many of the recipients of Aristide's funds, like former California Congressman Ron Dellums, have close ties to the black congressional caucus, which has accused Bush of engineering a "coup" against Aristide. The ousted President's supporters say the largesse was necessary: the Clinton and Bush Administrations withheld $500 million in aid for Haiti as retribution for the autocratic practices of Aristide...
...razor-wire fence" and guarded by watchmen. In Washington last Wednesday, Zimbabwe's human-rights record dominated a congressional human-rights hearing held by the Committee on International Relations. "The Mugabe regime takes what excess foreign exchange it can obtain and it uses [it] to open new camps," said Congressman Ed Royce, chairman of the subcommittee on Africa, who says he will now ask the Zimbabwean government for access to the camps. Two weeks ago, not long after the State Department released its annual human-rights report, which condemned Zimbabwe for using "torture by various methods" against those politically opposed...
...Former Congressman from Kentucky Romano Mazzoli, said the issue is always “vexing, meddlesome, and difficult—no one feels comfortable with it.” He said he struggled as a pro-life Congressman in the Democratic party. Quoting Kermit the Frog, he told the audience that “It ain’t easy being green,” isolated in a party dominated by pro-choicers, but said that he chose his position out of honesty...