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JOHN CONYERS JR. (D) District 14
The question is whether voters should believe the records or the new, austere rhetoric of the would-be chairmen. "They are trying to find a way to win the election, and then they will move back and do their agenda," warns Ohio's John Boehner. Even now, some are chafing...
Recent years have seen changes in Democratic caucus rules that make it easier for the leader to rein in headstrong chairmen. With the credibility of his agenda on the line, Gephardt has hinted he is likely to use that power in a Gingrichian way: by becoming the first Democratic Speaker...
Gephardt also has sought to diffuse power by spreading it around. As many as 50 Democrats meet daily with him to plan both strategy and policy, and he has put some of the caucus' most conservative members in critical positions. Only weeks after the election, he recruited Texan Chet Edwards...
According to Fino, Kemp once asked him point blank whether Cosentino was connected to the mob (Fino says he told him yes), but Fino is hazy about when this exchange took place. Alixe Glen, Kemp's spokeswoman, calls the allegations "unfounded" and "politically motivated." Representative John Conyers of Michigan, the...