Word: gephardts
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...proposed cuts. In the course of persuading the President to bend, Speaker Dennis Hastert was obliged to run up quite a phone bill: After two calls to Turkey, where the Clintons are touring, Hastert reported the two sides had reached an agreement, pending the expected approval of Dick Gephardt. The Minority Leader will confer with Congressional Democrats, many of whom are staunch in their opposition to across-the-board cuts. As of Thursday morning, the House looked primed to approve the cuts and send them over to the Senate, where the threats of several filibusters - over milk prices and environmental...
...Bush's speech that included moments of grudging admiration and startled recognition. "He saw himself in Bush," says an adviser. "A whole lot of himself." On Capitol Hill, where House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other G.O.P. bosses were enraged by Bush's words, aides to minority leader Dick Gephardt told Hastert's people, "Get used to it. We've been putting up with this for seven years." Bush called Hastert on Thursday to make nice, sources told TIME; earlier, Bush strategist Karl Rove called Representative Tom Davis, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, to offer Bush's fund-raising...
...only a handful of Capitol Hill Democrats putting their names behind Bradley, while Gore's campaign announces new lists of endorsements almost daily. But when it comes to placing their own futures on the line, other Democrats are hedging their bets. Even as House minority leader Dick Gephardt works hard to shore up Gore support among labor and in Iowa, he will not do anything to imperil his chances of taking back the House--which is why he is not squeezing hard on wavering members. "You've got to do what you need to get re-elected," the leader told...
...Democrats after the Republican rout of 1994, Kennedy, then 27, worked hard to shed the "Congressboy" image that led a local radio station to mock him by playing the tune If I Only Had a Brain. One who has been impressed is House minority leader Dick Gephardt. The two men share the same left-of-center ideology, and Kennedy has proved his determination and drive to his mentor through tireless campaigning for other House members and fireplug advocacy of such causes as education and health care...
...Devil, die with the Devil!" Kennedy screamed. During the House vote to impeach Bill Clinton, he nearly came to blows with Georgia's Bob Barr over the Republican's use of a quote from President Kennedy. These outbursts have not hurt him in the eyes of his colleagues. Says Gephardt: "Patrick has the fire of idealism and the passion that Jack and Bobby had and that his dad has." For a Kennedy scion on the rise, that's a procession he's happy to join...