Word: frist
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...Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee voted 9-7 to recommendconfirmation of Dr. Henry Foster as surgeon general. The favorable vote included two committee Republicans: James Jeffords of Vermont and Bill Frist of Tennessee, a cardiologist who waited until minutes before the vote to publicly support the fellow Tennessean he has known for years. Now,TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumultynotes, Foster has to circumnavigate a promised filibuster by Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tx.), who has made the nominationan issue in his presidential campaign. With Frist's support, Foster now has 52 votes -- eight short of the number needed to block...
...most surprising support for Foster came from Bill Frist of Tennessee. A heart-and-lung surgeon and conservative first termer who is against abortion, Frist startled Republicans and Democrats with sympathetic questions for Foster from the committee. Frist said he understands the problems obstetricians and gynecologists face treating low-income women. "I know he must have seen botched abortions, women coming in the hospital door, bleeding," said Frist, adding he was aware too of the segregation suffered by black doctors. "I'm the only person on that panel who knows what it was like in the South in the 1960s...
Tennessee Democrat Jim Sasser was a candidate for the Senate floor leadership, before his November defeat at the hands of surgeon and hospital owner Bill Frist (R-Tenn.). Now, he will be leading a study session to discuss the future of the Democratic party...
...vain. Doctors, even wealthy ones, rank well above politicians in public esteem. No one gave a hoot about the kittens, or where Frist would find the spending cuts, as long as he wanted to cut. Sasser lost by 212,843 votes...
...Washington is a certain kind of theme park that newcomers enter at their own risk. Old immunities disappear as members are forced to take positions and cast votes, providing the very specifics to voters and potential opponents they so carefully avoided this campaign. Unless overnight sensations like Stockman and Frist perform sensationally, they may find the broom that swept the old coots out of office ready to be used again...