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...battle over the lost surplus rages in the months ahead, look for both sides to tie the issue to emotionally resonant problems. That's just what Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer did last week at an Arthritis Foundation meeting in Edgewater, Md. Hoyer tried earlier this year to increase federal research on chronic diseases by $350 million, but the White House pared it down to $175 million. He had hoped to restore the cut, but with the surplus gone, he told the seniors, it now seems unlikely. In Missouri, Bush had used his favorite tax-cut line: "It's your money...
There might have been some way for Gary Condit to have made a bigger hash of his comeback tour last week, but it's hard to see how. If the Congressman was hoping to sound contrite about his relationship with missing intern Chandra Levy, he might have tried saying he was sorry. If his handlers wanted him to appear likable, he needed first to appear human. And if he was trying to appear unjustly accused, it would have helped not to accuse everyone else. An old trial lawyer's rule holds that a defendant can get away with calling...
...Maryland Democratic congressman Steny Hoyer launced his attack at a meeting last Wednesday morning in Edgwater, Maryland. The gathering of 50-odd seniors representing the 79,000 arthritis sufferers in Hoyer?s district was a great spot to drop an anti-GOP bombshell...
DIED. FLOYD SPENCE, 73, 16-term G.O.P. Congressman from South Carolina and former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee; after emergency brain surgery to remove a blood clot; in Jackson, Miss. An opponent of Big Government, he was nevertheless a proponent of an enlarged military and national missile-defense program...
...Most of the interview last night between Congressman Condit and Connie Chung seemed like a conversation between two people speaking English as a second language. She, of course, loaded every question in pursuit of that impossible Perry Mason moment where the prosecutor breaks down the witness. Connie, it never happens...