Word: gephardts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been reluctant to sing before a national audience. D.L.C. stalwarts like Bentsen, Al Gore and Robb have tin ears. Nunn's libretto -- defense and national-security policy -- seems increasingly irrelevant for a world rushing toward peace. The current season's high-decibel speaker, House majority leader Richard Gephardt, seems too opportunistic as he screeches out a hard-rock message of economic nationalism and a Free Enterprise Corps while bashing Bush for timidity. Bill Bradley is the party's rap star, tapping out his proposals for Third World debt, tax-code overhaul and international monetary reform in monotone...
Since James Baker said that on a Texas turkey shoot shortly before he became Secretary of State, the Bush Administration's conduct of foreign policy has been scathingly criticized. The common complaint, thrown out again last week by House majority leader Richard Gephardt, portrays George Bush as a visionless bystander in a changing world. It is a cheap critique that misses the point. As American primacy recedes, the trick is to maximize U.S. leverage by crafting creative techniques for disparate situations...
...conference, 45 Chinese citizens studying at schools in 22 states met with U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), lawyers and aides to U.S. Reps. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.), Joe Barton (R-Tex.) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-56 (D-Mass...