Word: heatedly
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Turning up the heat on a new wave of al legations of campaign finance improprieties on both sides of the aisle, Senate Republicans reversed course by agreeing to allow Senator Fred Thompson's campaign finance investigation to look into "soft money" donations. Fearing that any probe woul d wind up biting them as well, the GOP leadership had previously rammed through a deal that would limit Thompson to investigating only "illegal activities" that took place during the 1996 race. The Republican turnaround was spurred by the growing re alization that, while the White House fundraising scandal certainly looks...
Republicans want to keep the heat on Democrats without having the investigation spread to their own fund-raising practices. To their immense discomfort, the FBI has been investigating whether the Chinese government funneled money to both parties in last year's congressional races. Senator Fred Thompson, the Tennessee Republican who will be chairman of the hearings, promises he will also look into congressional fund raising. But Republicans, who let lobbyists draft part of environmental legislation in the last Congress, want his questions to stop at the White House...
...days later, again in the Sterling's main reading room with several books destroyed in the flood resting in front of him, Yale President Richard C. Levin announced a $48 million plan to renovate Sterling, $35 million of which was to go for protecting the collection from heat, humidity, ultraviolet light and air pollution...
...researchers from the School of Public Health are taking heat from industry groups after refusing to public release data from a study on air pollution, the Boston Globe reported Tuesday...
...being passed into law, with or without Clinton's backing. "The latest disclosure is going to put a lot of pressure on both sides," says TIME's Karen Tumulty. "And a lot will fall on the Democrats, enough, possibly, to override a veto." Seeking to turn up the heat, the Christian Coalition has launched a grassroots lobbying campaign targeting up to 100 congressional districts in 36 states. Meanwhile, the Family Research Council also is running radio ads featuring pleas from GOP conservatives William Bennett and Jack Kemp for Congress to pass the bill quickly. After Fitzsimmons' surprise announcement, that...