Word: counseled
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...Washington law school, Foley seemed likely to emulate the career of his father, a highly regarded state judge who exerted a powerful influence over his son until his death four years ago at 84. But in 1961 Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson hired Foley as a counsel to the Senate Interior Committee. In 1963 Jackson began urging his protege to run for the House. Foley agonized and held back for so long that in the end he arrived in the state capital to declare his candidacy just hours before the filing deadline. In November 1964, Foley...
...antiabortion law, which declares that life begins at conception and bars the use of public funds and public facilities such as hospitals to perform or assist in an abortion. The statute, which has never gone into effect, would also forbid doctors in publicly funded hospitals to "encourage or counsel" a woman to obtain an abortion. Webster argued that several of the law's provisions would have little impact, implying that the court could uphold them without jeopardizing...
...guess I should have figured it out during the ice cream bash freshperson week, when I began to notice that all in the room were the editor-in-chief of their high school's newspaper, the principal managing editor of the yearbook, the president of their class, the first counsel to their Model U.N., and the chief executive officer of their Stock Market Club...
Committee counsel Richard Phelan insisted that Mallick did have such an interest, if only because his extensive oil and real estate holdings made him much more vulnerable to any change in tax laws than the ordinary American. But Mallick does not meet three standard tests of direct interest: he is not a lobbyist, he employs no lobbyists, and he does not have a political-action committee. By the standard of interest that the ethics committee seems to be applying to Mallick, says one member of Congress, "I couldn't talk to my own mother. She's 65, and on Social...
...statement came as the House Ethics Committee was preparing to vote on whether there is "reason to believe" the Speaker has violated congressional rules. After the vote, the committee will publish a report of some 500 pages detailing the alleged violations. The committee will release raw data compiled by counsel Richard Phelan -- the kind of unsubstantiated innuendos that Republicans succeeded in keeping out of the public domain / during the Tower investigation. Wright will have 21 days in which to respond in writing. The committee will then decide if the case requires any action. If it recommends a fine, reprimand, censure...