Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Silvio Conte of Massachusetts). It also noted candidly that some of the best-known legislators had dipped into pork-barrel politics. Among them: Democratic Presidential Candidate Ernest Hollings and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, both of South Carolina (for fighting to keep Fort Jackson, near Columbia, open); Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas (for preventing the closing of a Housing and Urban Development Department office in Topeka); Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia (for protecting a money-losing Amtrak route through his state); Democratic Presidential Contender John Glenn and his Ohio colleague Howard Metzenbaum (for stopping the transfer...
Contrast this to the Reagan Administration. For the first time in history, three women hod Cabinet-level posts simultaneously, all at the behest of Reagan--Jeanne Kirkpatrick at the U.N., Margaret Heckler at Health and Human Services, and Elizabeth Dole at the Department of Transportation. His lower-level appointments of women do not match up numerically with Jimmy Carter's at a similar point in Administration--95 to 113 for posts needing Senate confirmation, 10 to 18 for Federal judgeships--but he made history by appointing Sandra Day O'Vonnor to the Supreme Court. Also, comparison with Carter amounts...
...Robert J. Dole (R-Kansas), in a speech to the group later that evening, said that the bill the resolution is attached to would undoubtedly be dropped in committee, but that it sent a message to the President that the country disapproves of his actions...
...think they're going to let you go along on the next one," Dole joked to the audience of journalists...
...weekend's highlight was an address on Saturday evening by Sen. Robert J. Dole...