Word: congressmen
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...Congressmen don't usually hang around on the House floor any longer than they have to. But for Gary Condit, it may be the only sanctuary left. On Thursday afternoon, as the campaign-reform bill was crashing to earth, so did the rest of his life. At the back of the chamber, the California Congressman leaned on the rail, chatting and joking with the men and women who still treat him as a colleague. As the others wandered away one by one, Condit lingered for a while, all alone...
...House vote on a bill barring unregulated soft-money contributions. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who controls what bills come to the floor, says he has "no plan to bring up this bill now." But House minority leader Dick Gephardt and Senator John McCain will ask the 19 G.O.P. Congressmen who defected in last week's fight to pressure Hastert to change his mind. If that fails, they'll try to get signatures from a majority of House members to force a vote. It will be tough to round up 218 members, but Gephardt's done it before--to force campaign...
Social Security isn't a subject you normally picture protesters going to the streets over. But this week, rallies and other public events are planned in 43 states on it. Congressmen and senators will be climbing onto podiums and shouting at the top of their lungs about...
...Even some moderate Democrats agree. Sen. John Breaux, who chairs the Senate Special Committee on Aging and has served on past commissions studying privatization, believes that Americans ought to have the option of investing some of their Social Security payroll tax in the market--just as congressmen and senators now do. "The current beneficiaries, I think, have been unfortunately scared into believing that if the government doesn't do it all, like we have been doing since 1935, then it won't be safe," Breaux told me in a recent interview. "I think that's not correct. The stock market...
...That's especially true of congressmen with an election coming up next fall - long-term is a luxury not every politician can afford. In the House, Bush has his Republican allies pushing for more production and delivering short-lived committee victories, and his Democratic enemies pushing for more conservation but often - as was the case Tuesday - running into conflicts with their desire to bust Bush for busting the budget...