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...talk, "Reflections on Public Service," featured Sen. Edward M. Kennedy `54 (D-Mass.), television commentator and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, former Sen. Warren B. Rudman `54 (R-N.H.) and former Congressman Philip R. Sharp...
...minds this week, but also government programs that many people believe actually do some good. And in trying to restrain "recent explosive growth in discretionary spending" by cutting "unjustified programs, excessive programs, duplicative programs and programs that have completed their mission," he'll find that every program has a congressman, a lobbyist and a constituency who hold it dear...
...plane crash. But the G.O.P. is changing its widow treatment; she is now considered a target for 2002. (Carnahan must run in 2002 since it was her husband who was elected; she was only appointed.) G.O.P. polls in Missouri show that Carnahan runs even, at 43%, against former Congressman JAMES TALENT. Against Representative JO ANN EMERSON, Carnahan leads by 9%, but partisans point out that Emerson is not well known. Neither has announced intentions to run, but Republicans hope the numbers, and Carnahan's 29% unfavorable rating, will encourage one of them. What changed? "The Ashcroft vote turned her into...
...There could be no grandiose pronouncements, no claims that Pi Day is as American as mom, the flag and apple pi; the ratio, after all, belongs to the world. Legislators write home about how they were tough on crime, or saved the federal linoleum subsidy; any Congressman who told his constituency about his sponsorship of Pi Day would be laughed out of office. (Unless his constituency were entirely composed of mathematicians, in which case he would be anointed king...
...income tax cut can do anything to temper a slowdown as business-related as this one is. But he could look awfully presidential trying - and that's where the right-wing tax-cut-thumpers like Dick Armey, Tom DeLay and their newest stalking horse, conservative Pennsylvania congressman Pat Toomey, come...