Word: durbin
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Sadly for Gingrich and Lott (but not for Barbour, who gets paid no matter what), a couple of goody-goody freshmen had to go and ruin everything. Calling the move "midnight madness" that "shines and stinks like a mackerel in the moonlight," Democratic Senator Richard Durbin and Republican Susan Collins exposed the tax credit, which would have offset industry costs in the now ill-fated tobacco deal, to the light of day. No one came forward to defend the stinker once it was yanked from its protective package, so it went down, 95 to 3, in the Senate...
...going to get hurt. When Thompson warned of Chinese influence peddling, his counterpart, ranking Democrat John Glenn, raked over former Republican Party chief Haley Barbour for funneling foreign money through his National Policy Forum. Majority whip Don Nickles hammered away about White House coffees as fund raisers; Dick Durbin, junior Democrat from Illinois, read a Nickles letter from 1990, inviting potential Republican donors who pledged $1,000 to a reception on the lawn at Vice President Dan Quayle's house...
Harvard most likely will be without junior 190-pounder Rob Durbin who will have surgery on his injured knee...
Sophomore Ed Mosley, wrestling at 158, and junior Rob Durbin, who wrestled at 190 pounds, both finished 3-2. Both wrestlers were only one win away from placing in the tournament...
...quarterfinals, Mosley lost to the defending national champion Ernest Benion who wrestles for Illinois. Durbin won two of his matches on take downs in the last five seconds of the final period...