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...flat tax of 17% on everybody. But it took congressional Democrats until week's end to utter their first opposition rhetoric. "We're not about to roll over and play dead while the Republicans rubber stamp their extremist, supply-side agenda," warned House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt...
Tell the President I'll call him back. The bumptious Gingrich likes the sound of that, and in other ways large and small is relishing his new role at the center of things. On Friday evening Gingrich rushed from his first postelection meeting with Representative Richard Gephardt -- the Missouri Democrat and outgoing majority leader -- into his own tiny, crowded office just off the House floor. Prominent just inside the heavy doors were a dozen red roses with a thank-you card signed by the National Right to Life Committee, the nation's most powerful opponent of abortion rights. All around...
Even though outgoing House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., is the favorite to slip a notch to Minority Leader, other Democrats are looking to move up. Today, longtime North Carolina Rep. Charlie Rose, who narrowly sidestepped a GOP near-sweep of his state, announced he'll challenge Gephardt for the Democrats' top House job. The Rose rationale: the Party faithful might be better off if they?re less faithful to President Clinton. "Our president is not our prime minister, and the (congressional) leaders are not his chief whips," said Rose, a moderate and longshot...
While longtime Democratic heavy hitter Richard Gephardt of Missouri seems certain to become House minority leader, theparty's future leadershipin the more conservative Senate is far from certain. The likely favorite to succeed Maine's George Mitchell as Senate leader was Jim Sasser of Tennessee, but Sasser was the victim of a shocking upset Tuesday. Sources tell TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty that a top contender is Christopher Dodd of Connecticut. "I've been told that he's interested and he's making a round of calls," Tumulty says. At 50, Dodd has 14 years in the Senate...
Three years ago, prominent Democrats like Mario Cuomo, Richard Gephardt and Bill Bradley practically blanched any time they were mentioned as potential candidates for the White House. With George Bush universally understood to be unbeatable for re-election -- so much for universal understanding -- going for the Democratic presidential nomination seemed a little like taping a sign to your own back that read, "Kick...