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Howard Dean, for example, has won the backing of more black congressional caucus members than any other candidate, but each candidate has his own bragging roster. Clark has the support of New York Congressman Charles Rangel and Andrew Young, and John Kerry can claim the leader of South Carolina's legislative black caucus as well as Senator Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, who had overwhelming support from African-American voters in his 1998 re-election. All of the candidates are in the hunt for the blessing of South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, who had originally endorsed Dick Gephardt...
...since Julius Caesar have I seen such a blatant stab in the back?Et tu, Mr. O'Neill?" Mark Foley, U.S. Republican Congressman, in response to The Price of Loyalty, a book by Ron Suskind in which former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill criticizes the Bush Administration...
...other Democrats--will soon know whether all the time they have spent in Ottumwa and Council Bluffs and Davenport and Fort Dodge has paid off. Iowa's first-in-the-nation contest is only a week away, and most polls show Dean holding a narrow lead over Congressman Dick Gephardt, who won the caucuses in 1988 and whose candidacy will be all but finished if he doesn't eke out another victory this time. Gephardt is drawing most of his support from older, less affluent Iowans, Dean from upscale, educated and more socially liberal voters. The choice reflects the generational...
...Secretary Ridge says just do what you normally do ... If normally you go to Times Square, I wouldn't do what you normally do." CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Republican Congressman from Connecticut, warning New Year's Eve revelers against following the Secretary of Homeland Security's advice not to change any plans because of the terrorism threat...
...food and medicine. That has dampened prospects for other measures dear to investors, such as opening the energy sector to foreign capital and revamping Mexico's ossified labor unions. Though polls show Fox is still popular, "he keeps overestimating the political power of that personal appeal," says pri Congressman Carlos Flores. Fox has also seemed hesitant or unable to tackle dark human-rights abuse cases from the PRI era, including the massacre of hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators on the eve of the 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics. All that, combined with a weaker peso and a stagnant economy that...