Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result that of every Pentagon dollar, the portion earmarked for bases, housing and other nonfighting assets remains near 60[cents]. The average lawmaker feels that is a small price to pay to ensure his or her re-election. And the President is more desperate than usual to keep Congressmen happy. None of this, of course, is lost on the Joint Chiefs. And you've got to give them credit: they know when to strike...
...turn, are calling in their support to Democratic lawmakers. And it would be hard for lawmakers to miss the implicit message: You want my money? We want your vote. Or at least, hold your fire before all the evidence is in. This has been especially important with Senators and Congressmen in close races who are rumored to be thinking of calling on Clinton to resign...
...come around to the view that the problems of three little people -- herself, Clinton and Lewinsky -- really don't add up to a hill of beans in this crazy (GOP-dominated) world. At the same time, spokewoman Marsha Berry revealed, the First Lady is finally returning calls to concerned congressmen. "She has certainly talked to some members," said Berry, "making the case that she's very proud of the President...
...stories. Lewinsky remembers being with Clinton on President's Day 1996, when he spoke to a Florida sugar grower named "something like Fanuli." Phone logs show Clinton spoke to sugar baron Alfonso Fanjul that day. Lewinsky says that during three sexual encounters, Clinton was on the phone with Congressmen; during another, he took a call from his disgraced consultant Dick Morris; in each case, phone logs bear out her account. (Lewinsky says she was performing a sex act on Clinton while he spoke to Alabama Representative Sonny Callahan. The lawmaker, aghast, says they were discussing American troops in Bosnia...
...Congressmen and commentators spoke of being in "uncharted territory." They used the term in the way that medieval cartographers wrote "Here Be Monsters" on old maps--meaning that we are in the place where knowledge ends and dread begins...