Word: gop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spared a trial? House Republicans had been offering the President a way out for weeks: Confess that you lied under oath, they said, and we'll let you off with censure. The President never bit, in part because the White House smelled a GOP trap: Admit to perjury and get prosecuted for it the moment you leave office. Even though the White House has argued that no prosecutor would bring perjury charges on what Clinton is alleged to have done, an admission would be like waving a red cape before Ken Starr. And while few believe Clinton could be prosecuted...
...Anytime you try to correct an abuse in the system, they find the most heart-wrenching story, and that makes it very hard for politicians to function," he said. "I don't know any GOP [members] or Democrats who want to torture people...
...discussing abuses of power and defining whether obstruction of justice and perjury has been committed (our guess: it hasn't). The big guns come tomorrow when Clinton tries to appeal to the swing vote, the moderate Republicans, by trotting out the former darling of the middle-of-the-road GOP, William Weld...
...other cities, pro-labor officials are refusing subsidies to developers who want to build big projects, including the Staples sports arena and a Hollywood theater-and-hotel complex, unless they agree to pay the higher wage to their waiters, janitors, hot-dog vendors and others. Last week even GOP mayor Richard Riordan, seeking a $12 billion airport expansion, gave in to pressure from a labor-clergy alliance and extended the living wage to 2,500 airport bag checkers and security guards...
...officials to federal judges will appear to tell us what a horrible crime lying before the court is. Expect some real emotional moments as reformed felons relate stories of the day they told less than the whole truth. "Convicted perjurers may have personal experiences they want to relate," said GOP committee spokeswoman Michelle Morgan. Very interesting, to be sure -- but how useful will it be in this highly partisan environment where most minds have already been made up? The committee doesn't exactly have the luxury of time, either. Hyde has promised to wrap up the hearings by December...