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...raiser for Representative Gerald Solomon, the New York Republican largely responsible for the revisions they had been seeking. All sides say they did nothing wrong. Democrats say it still amounts to business as usual. "Newt Gingrich has done a booming business in special-interest quid pro quos," says Don Fowler, co-chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
...Reported by Tamala M. Edwards/Washington, Deborah Fowler/ Houston, Barbara Rudolph/New York and Tara Weingarten/Los Angeles
Though Delay is not bashful about his agenda, the actual tactics may be more subtle, according to Don Fowler, the soft-spoken national chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "You're a lobbyist," he says. "So you call up a subcommittee chairman and ask for an appointment. They take your name and number, but the congressman's assistant tells you to call back a day later. And when you do, they tell you that you haven't been doing your part...
Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler today retracted statements that New York Gov.George Pataki, the rookie Republican who bested Mario Cuomoin November, was a "quasi-governor," or -- as Fowler then elaborated -- "half-assed." The apology for his remarks Tuesday came after New York's senior Democrat, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, took the Senate floor hours later to offer his own apology for Fowler's "inexcusable conduct." Fowler made the remarks while criticizing Pataki for his proposed "tax cuts to the rich...
Seniors are using their new computing power to do everything from monitoring investments to tracking genealogy to producing their memoirs. Some have started postretirement businesses making greeting cards or performing legal research on the Internet. But the majority say they were drawn to computers because, like Jack Fowler, 75, of Sun City West, Arizona, they simply didn't want to be left behind by progress. ``I couldn't keep up with my four-year- old grandson,'' says the retired pharmacist...