Word: empted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curtain, venturing forth only to make high-minded statements about the need for civility at a moment of this historic magnitude. But on Wednesday he went before the microphones--without Judiciary committee chairman Henry Hyde--and trampled all over the idea of a censure deal that would pre-empt impeachment proceedings. He also ruminated in a closed-door meeting about expanding the hearings to include Clinton's campaign-finance abuses, the Administration's transfer of satellite technology to China, and the many other scandals known as Whitewater. It sure looked as though Newt was in charge and ready to launch...
...game over Kerrey-Portman, a bill that developed out of the bipartisan commission on IRS reform headed by Senate Democrat Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and House Republican Rob Portman of Ohio. More than once over the past year the White House has rushed forward with reform proposals to pre-empt the commission, which issued its report in June. All the same, by mid October, when the House Ways and Means Committee was wrapping up consideration of the bill, the proposal for an outside board of directors was still a red flag for Rubin, who saw it as an open invitation...
Since 1978, nominees have had to fill out mind-numbing forms that demand details of everything from teenage drug use to housekeeper taxes, and then submit to separate White House, FBI and Senate investigations, all of which can take several months. Some nominees pre-empt questions themselves: last week CIA director-designate George Tenet asked the Senate to delay his confirmation vote in order to look into investments his father gave him without his knowledge...
...Levitin derides. Elsewhere he is eminently clear on the fact, explaining that Har Homa is the final stage of an attempt to surround the city "with a ring of primarily Jewish neighborhoods." This cutting off of Jerusalem from surrounding Palestinian areas is precisely the kind of attempt to pre-empt the status of the city that the Oslo accords were framed to avoid. The status of the city is to be decided. Israel has already made its decision...
Though Gore needs money for a presidential race, he also needs clean hands. Plus he has to pre-empt a possible primary challenge from former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, who wants to make a signature issue out of campaign-finance reform. Lately Gore has been promoting the idea of requiring broadcast outlets to provide advertising slots, the main thing campaigns spend money on, free of charge to them. No big outlays, goes the reasoning, no need for big fund raising. But on the most important piece of current reform legislation, the McCain-Feingold bill banning "soft money" contributions...