Word: gephardts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THAT CRUMB OFF THE TABLE. George Bush has still not forgiven Dick Gephardt for his personal crusade against capital-gains tax cuts last year. So it was no surprise when congressional leaders were summoned to the White House and the House majority leader didn't get an invitation. Mindful of the snubbing, Speaker Tom Foley has named Gephardt to lead the congressional conferees at the budget summit, so whenever Bush is present he will have to face his least favorite politician...
...White House Situation Room. She returns laughing -- at Ronald Reagan; at the American medical system, which would rather produce a "temple-sized ultraquark-powered graviton for the visualization of intestinal gas" than put up with sick people; and at the "unbearable being of whiteness," which led presidential candidate Richard Gephardt to tell "moving stories about his youth as a poor black boy in the South, and how he had inexplicably turned white, clear up to and including his eyebrows...
...Senate Democrat Lloyd Bentsen called the decision a "serious mistake" that could "poison the well," meaning Congress might be less likely to approve the Administration's future trade agreements with Eastern Europe and new rules being negotiated in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. House majority leader Richard Gephardt was just as opposed: "At the very moment when we're beginning to see signs of tangible progress, the Administration seems to be saying it's time to back up and back...
...exploratory committee, hired a pollster, secretly gathered a brain trust or assembled any of the normal paraphernalia of political conquest. At a similar point in previous election cycles, John Kennedy had barnstormed the U.S.; George McGovern, Gary Hart and Walter Mondale had functioning organizations; and Jimmy Carter and Richard Gephardt had wandered purposefully through Iowa's byways...
...Tennessee's Al Gore are all up for re-election and have pledged their loyalties to their constituencies -- for now. So have Governors Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Mario Cuomo of New York, Senators Charles Robb of Virginia and George Mitchell of Maine, and such congressional possibilities as Schroeder, Gephardt and Speaker Tom Foley...