Word: foley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington state voted on imposing term limits designed to curtail the careers of House Speaker Tom Foley, other members of Congress and state officials. It voted, as well, on a first-in-the-nation plan to legalize doctor-assisted suicide for the terminally...
...approved by the voters and sustained in court, it would require the state's entire House delegation to retire in 1994, including Foley, a Democrat first elected...
...unwritten, and demand a lifetime of male bonding to understand. It's bad form to call one's deepest philosophical enemy anything but "my distinguished colleague," or to continue a political argument after hours. When cries went up for a list of Capitol Hill check bouncers, House Speaker Tom Foley protected Democrats and Republicans alike, as does the Ethics Committee. So ingrained is the clubbiness that partisanship often seems like a Hulk Hogan spectacle, faked for the C-SPAN audience...
...creative financial activity rushed to clear their names in a nasty spectacle of finger pointing. Some asked for letters stating they had never committed any offense or for some official vindication. That turned out to be a bad idea for Democrat David Obey of Wisconsin, who demanded that Foley release a list of delinquent members in the hope that his name would be cleared. Instead, Obey discovered he too had bounced several checks for small amounts during a 12-day period...
...pains to explain that lawmakers had been irresponsible only with each other's money, not the Treasury's. "The public should be aware that no taxpayer funds were used to cover insufficiencies," he said. "The funds of other members of Congress were employed to that end." Meanwhile, Speaker Foley called the reporting on the story "hysterical" and observed that the vast majority of the checks were for very small amounts...