Word: congressmen
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Moreover, Congress had stripped out of its new welfare bill many of the harsh provisions that had provoked the President to veto two earlier versions. The decisive breakthrough began in early June, when two obscure G.O.P. Congressmen--John Ensign, a freshman from Las Vegas, and Dave Camp, a third termer from Michigan--conferred after a meeting of Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee. Says Ensign: "We both looked at each other and said, 'This is crazy!' " What was crazy, they thought, was a decision of the G.O.P. congressional leadership to keep welfare reform combined in a single...
...early running, Dole is giving the former housing secretary and football star a second look in the final round. Trailing President Clinton by 20 points in polls, Dole hopes to begin closing the gap by choosing an attractive vice-presidential candidate. A California native and former congressmen from Buffalo, N.Y., Kemp is popular among GOP activists for his supply side economic views on economics, his staunch deficit-fighting and his opposition to abortion. Despite his strained relationship with Dole, Kemp also has a bit of an inside fix: three top campaign aides - Scott Reed, John Buckley, and Kevin Stach - worked...
That wacky, gun-and-gunk-loving freshman class of Republican Congressmen has yet another star falling from the sky, following the trajectory of Texas' pro-assault weapon Steve Stockman and Utah's Enid (Where's Joe?) Greene Waldholtz. Oregon Congressman Wes Cooley won't say whether he married his second wife in the mid-1980s, as his voter-registration card and friends say he did. Or in 1994, when his wife notified the Veterans Affairs Department that they could stop sending her $900 a month in benefits as the widow of a Marine captain. His press spokesman says Cooley...
Meanwhile, Deutch still faces opposition. Despite Perry's backing, the Pentagon's military brass is fighting a rear-guard action to limit Deutch's control over their spy operations. Veteran CIA hands and Congressmen, on the other hand, are worried that Deutch is going overboard, satisfying the Pentagon's hunger for battlefield secrets at the expense of collecting political and diplomatic intelligence that his principal customer, the President, might need...
...lambasted House Republicans for playing a "shell game" with the Contract with America, blamed "idiots" in the Senate for scaring investment banker Felix Rohatyn away from the Federal Reserve Board and slammed lawmakers generally for playacting rather than attending to the nation's woes. "The strutting, the pouting. Congressmen standing on the steps of the Capitol, demonstrating this, demonstrating that," Perot says. "This is great for the evening news, but it does nothing to solve our nation's problems." His prescription: more civility in public discourse...