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...wasn't entirely his fault-the recession had caused capital-gains tax receipts to plummet from $17 billion to $4 billion-but Davis had not been honest about the looming disaster during the campaign, and instant karma got him in the form of Darrell Issa, a millionaire paleo-conservative Congressman who bankrolled the successful recall petition drive...
...students here who have been out in the world, usually in government or government agencies. They’ve been out of school for a few years,” says KSG spokesperson Doug Gavel. “Obviously, the congressman is an exception...
...action opposed it by roughly 10 to 1. Still, it has the support of key G.O.P. leaders, and President Bush has threatened to veto any bill overturning it. Republicans who are breaking ranks on the issue face growing party pressure. On the morning of the vote, Congressman Zach Wamp, a Republican from Tennessee who voted to kill the FCC plan, spotted House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Billy Tauzin, who backs it. "I kind of ducked to the left," he said, "went around a column and down three flights of stairs." --By Viveca Novak. With reporting by Eric Roston
Beware of parade metaphors. And yet...Kerry jogging artfully, Dean running artlessly--that's pretty much where the race stands in New Hampshire these days. There are other candidates and other states. Congressman Dick Gephardt has support in Iowa and could easily win the nomination, especially if Kerry and Dean murder each other over the same subset of white, well-educated voters. And so Kerry vs. Dean has become the preliminary bout before the Democrats' main event. It is a struggle that revolves around a single issue that mixes style and substance. The issue is Iraq. The style question...
...institution Jack Valenti, who for 37 years has headed the Motion Picture Association of America, the Hollywood studios' lobbying group, is finally ready to retire, and sources tell TIME the choices to succeed him have been narrowed to two Louisianians. One whose name has been floated for months is Congressman Billy Tauzin, Republican chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Tauzin has strong backing from Disney, but that has proved to be a liability among some of the other major studios. His chief rival is John Breaux, the Democratic Senator from Louisiana, who is popular with the Bush White...