Word: foley
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...next day, Mitchell had acquiesced. A full-fledged debate on the Harkin-Adams resolution began in the Senate, where Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy pointedly warned, "We have not seen such arrogance in a President since Watergate." The fight spread to the House, despite Speaker Tom Foley's efforts to contain it. Democrats Richard Durbin of Illinois and Charles Bennett of Florida announced that they had enlisted 51 supporters for a resolution similar to the one Harkin and Adams had introduced in the Senate. Though neither resolution would be binding, both represent a clear message to the President that he must...
Even now, House Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.) told President Bush not to reconvene Congress because representatives might not support military action. "Maybe it was too much to ask with the gridlock of the budget and on the eve of the election," Senator Daniel P. Moynihan told the New York Times, commenting on the failure of Congress to request a formal meeting with the Bush administration to discuss Gulf policy...
...asking the federal courts to enjoin Bush from committing U.S. forces to combat without prior authorization from Congress. A U.N. use-of-force resolution could encourage Congress to grant such authorization. "It would have some significant impact if the United Nations granted such a resolution," said House Speaker Thomas Foley, one of several leaders who accompanied Bush on his Thanksgiving visit to U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia. Senate Republican leader Bob Dole, another of that group, said if the U.N. resolution passed, he would urge Bush to call the full Congress into special session to vote a domestic version. There...
...Foley said the near-tropical weather was caused by a high pressure system over the Atlantic "transporting mild air from the Southeastern United State to New England...
Fortunately, the National Weather Servicereported that yesterday's temperatures hadabsolutely no connection to the greenhouse effect."This is a short-term phenomenon expected to endFriday," Foley said. "Global warming takes placeover decades...