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...calls a "firing point." The meetings get smaller, shorter and more focused, a forced march to a conclusion. And sometimes Gore's conclusion is an idea that wasn't on the table in the first place: after spending more than a year studying the arms race as a young Congressman in the 1980s, Gore latched onto a proposal that split the difference between the cold warriors and the nuclear-disarmament camp, a single-warhead missile dubbed the Midgetman. Gore's plan helped produce a compromise that united Ronald Reagan with moderate Democrats on reviving the MX missile...
Even faithful Democrats felt their teeth itching. "I found myself saying, 'Just don't say anything, Al,'" said Ohio Congressman Ted Strickland. "I don't think he has to try to win every point and cram in every bit of information about every subject. The issues favor my party and my candidate, and because of that it's a little disconcerting that a good argument, a good debate point, would be diminished by the way it's presented...
...Even faithful Democrats felt their teeth itching. "I found myself saying, 'Just don't say anything, Al," said Ohio Congressman Ted Strickland. "I don't think he has to try to win every point and cram in every bit of information about every subject. The issues favor my party and my candidate, and because of that it's a little disconcerting that a good argument, a good debate point, would be diminished by the way it's presented...
...limb with remarks that may be impossible to back up." The response that many of the specific charges are unfair has not made the general issue less sticky. "He did hold the first hearings on Love Canal. He did do more than any other Congressman to bring us the Internet," complains a Gore senior adviser. "People have taken some misstatements and turned them into something mythic...
During last Thursday's heated House subcommittee hearing, Republican Congressman Billy Tauzin of Louisiana chastised the carmaker for submitting an affidavit implying that the suspect tires had initially been tested at the lowest recommended pressure on the Explorer, when they had been run only on a pickup truck, or mule, configured to mimic the SUV. Mules are often used in auto-industry tests, but that didn't mollify Tauzin. As if that weren't bad enough, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began a preliminary investigation into the possible failure of one or both of the Explorer's sway...